Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1766862AbXEBR3y (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 13:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1766863AbXEBR3y (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 13:29:54 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:4767 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1766864AbXEBR3w (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 13:29:52 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 10:29:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Ulrich Drepper cc: Davi Arnaut , Eric Dumazet , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070502052235.914764000@haxent.com.br> <20070502053427.123392000@haxent.com.br> <20070502095503.a06f5472.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070502104936.674a4b54.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <4638C37D.7050503@haxent.com.br> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 720 Lines: 21 On Wed, 2 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > It simple as is, there is no need to overdesign. > > There is no reason to go with a limited, too-simple minded design if > we've already identified a much better design. The fact that poll is > used today does not excuse piling on more and more code which makes > additional functions which don't fit into the poll framework barely > work. Plus, poll/epoll itself is a problem. Is it? Please do tell me more... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/