Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754017AbXEGFdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 01:33:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754032AbXEGFdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 01:33:50 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.236]:50630 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754017AbXEGFdu (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 01:33:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ueYQBvff9lR6+L4nBjQIo0KvqclDs7D9d15Zm9EAUH6NxWKl7T8N18qeCAT8PnwfEaWJlmCGwkt2y1OaeU5vK4n4E6EAEw9jYOYVMoQhvgrdL1NXrili/YXJ4s6eFqShSOvjQMTbsMK8ejZadsMOSAKBwg2wswHaNRKscxwWG2Y= Message-ID: Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 22:33:48 -0700 From: "Ulrich Drepper" To: "Andrew Morton" Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex Cc: "Davide Libenzi" , "Davi Arnaut" , "Eric Dumazet" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20070506125451.aac4b68f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070502052235.914764000@haxent.com.br> <20070506125451.aac4b68f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 16 On 5/6/07, Andrew Morton wrote: > What is your position on the timerfd/signalfd/etc patches? > > Seems to me that if we were to have fancy new event-delivery machinery > like kevent then the timerfd/signalfd work is heading in the other > direction and ultimately would prove to have been unneeded? That's my point. I think we ultimately have to have something like kevent and then all this *fd() work is unnecessary and just adds code to the kernel which has to be kept around and which might hinder further work in this area. - 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/