Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756057AbXIMIOQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:14:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753079AbXIMIOF (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:14:05 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49888 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752874AbXIMIOB (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:14:01 -0400 Cc: davidel@xmailserver.org, vda.linux@googlemail.com, rdunlap@xenotime.net, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, drepper@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org, hch@lst.de, jengelh@computergmbh.de, corbet@lwn.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:13:59 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" In-Reply-To: <20070912193920.441cf901.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: <20070913081359.216550@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070825064114.107820@gmx.net> <20070904011800.762523a4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200709051312.21873.vda.linux@googlemail.com> <20070905153201.236690@gmx.net> <20070912193920.441cf901.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: timerfd redux To: Andrew Morton X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: WWW-Mail 6100 (Global Message Exchange) X-Priority: 3 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+R5s1pEuORKiiV5fxKazqwyJIRrKy/nr11gRPVln uhpGB+Ks6wXP4dd1aZYR3UGUfKVDcL51979g== Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-GMX-UID: f8ned6VnYmYBZpCoHnY3NA5CWkZTQdRX Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 29 Andrew, > > 3. possible solutions > > I don't think we'll have this settled and coded in time for 2.6.23. So I > think the prudent thing to do is to push this back to 2.6.24 and not offer > sys_timerfd() in 2.6.23. Did you want a patch to remove the syscall number for now, or will you do that? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages , read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - 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/