Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754991AbZFXXNl (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:13:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752269AbZFXXNc (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:13:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47248 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751969AbZFXXNb (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:13:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:12:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Davide Libenzi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, ghaskins@novell.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, bcrl@kvack.org Subject: Re: [patch] eventfd - revised interface and cleanups (2nd rev) Message-Id: <20090624161240.3efdbbfa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20090623131239.711d9f83.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090623142511.c9068655.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090623144416.04c34268.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090623161852.660cab78.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 23 On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:47:47 -0700 (PDT) Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Maybe there is such a reason, and it hasn't yet been beaten into my > > skull. But I still think it should be done in a separate patch. One > > which comes with a full description of the reasons for the change, btw. > > Since your skull seems pretty hard to beat, would you like me to split it > for ya? :) Split what? My skull? umm, yes please, I believe the patches should be split. And I'm still not seeing the justification for forcing CONFIG_EVENTFD onto all CONFIG_AIO users! -- 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/