Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758181AbZJBUpd (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:45:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756902AbZJBUpc (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:45:32 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:58036 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758138AbZJBUpb (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Oct 2009 16:45:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Roland Dreier Cc: Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Anton Blanchard , general@lists.openfabrics.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify Message-ID: <20091002204528.GC29734@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1253187028.8439.2.camel@twins> <1253198976.14935.27.camel@laptop> <20090929171332.GD14405@elf.ucw.cz> <20090930094456.GD24621@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 20 Hi! > In the end this seems to just take the ummunotify code I have, and make > it be a new type of perf counter instead of a character special device. > I'd actually be OK with that, since having an oddball new char dev > interface is not particularly nice. But on the other hand just > multiplexing a new type of thing under perf events is not all that much > better. What do you think? I really hate the strange character device. So if you can hide it in tracing infrastructure, I'd certainly like that. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/