Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757948AbXH3MJp (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755670AbXH3MJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:35 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:4381 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755632AbXH3MJe (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:34 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 488 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:09:34 EDT X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:01:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Michael Kerrisk cc: Randy Dunlap , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , lkml , Linux Torvalds , Ulrich Drepper , stable@kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Jan Engelhardt , Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface In-Reply-To: <20070825064114.107820@gmx.net> Message-ID: References: <20070825064114.107820@gmx.net> 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: 600 Lines: 19 On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Davide -- ping! Can you please offer your comments about this change, and > also thoughts on Jon's and my comments about a more radical API change > later in this thread. IMO the complexity of the resulting API (and resulting patch), and the ABI change, is not justified by the added value. - 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/