Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758950AbXKNXT3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:19:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754687AbXKNXTU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:19:20 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:59275 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754153AbXKNXTU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:19:20 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18235.32982.439970.359975@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:12:22 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: David Miller Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, mucci@cs.utk.edu, eranian@hpl.hp.com, wcohen@redhat.com, robert.richter@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news In-Reply-To: <20071114.150303.13732085.davem@davemloft.net> References: <18234.58380.400222.329961@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20071114.040758.101673950.davem@davemloft.net> <18235.28062.309910.416774@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20071114.150303.13732085.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 19 David Miller writes: > From: Paul Mackerras > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:50:22 +1100 > > > I'd prefer to have a transaction() system call like I suggested to > > Nick rather than overloading read() like this. > > So much for getting rid of the extra system calls... *I* never had a problem with a few extra system calls. I don't understand why you (apparently) do. Paul. - 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/