Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:14:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:14:28 -0500 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:20352 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 19:14:18 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:13:59 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20011219.161359.71089731.davem@redhat.com> To: bcrl@redhat.com Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org Subject: Re: aio From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20011219135708.A12608@devserv.devel.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20011219135708.A12608@devserv.devel.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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 From: Ben LaHaise Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:57:08 -0500 Thanks for the useful feedback on the userland interface then. Evidently nobody cares within the community about improving functionality on a reasonable timescale. If this doesn't change soon, Linux is doomed. Maybe it's because the majority of people don't care nor would ever need to use AIO. Are you willing to accept this possibly? :-) Linux is anything but doomed, because you will notice that the things that actually matter for most people are in fact improved and worked on within a reasonable timescale. Only very specialized applications can even benefit from AIO. This doesn't make it useless, but it does decrease the amount of interest (and priority) anyone in the community will have in working on it. Now, if these few and far between people who are actually interested in AIO are willing to throw money at the problem to get it worked on, that is how the "reasonable timescale" will be arrived at. And if they aren't willing to toss money at the problem, how important can it really be to them? :-) Maybe, just maybe, most people simply do not care one iota about AIO. Linux caters to the general concerns not the nooks and cranies, that is why it is anything but doomed. - 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/