Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756300AbXIMIWT (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:22:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752779AbXIMIWK (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:22:10 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:59893 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbXIMIWJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:22:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:20:44 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Michael Kerrisk" 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 Subject: Re: timerfd redux Message-Id: <20070913012044.c120d98f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070913081359.216550@gmx.net> 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> <20070913081359.216550@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 20 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:13:59 +0200 "Michael Kerrisk" wrote: > 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? > Please send one over sometime. - 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/