Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757633Ab0HQP2b (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:36882 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753730Ab0HQP2a (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:28:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree - try 37! From: Eric Paris To: Tvrtko Ursulin Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher , Christoph Hellwig , Matt Helsley , "torvalds@linux-foundation.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , Michael Kerrisk In-Reply-To: <201008171155.21479.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> References: <1281110319.17812.21.camel@dhcp231-200.rdu.redhat.com> <201008171201.10142.agruen@suse.de> <201008171112.42097.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> <201008171155.21479.tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:27:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1282058869.21419.134.camel@acb20005.ipt.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1186 Lines: 25 On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:55 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2010 11:12:41 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2010 11:01:09 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > I'm quite sure that both of these issues have been discussed already. > > > > Ok, I obviosuly missed it. Do you have a pointer perhaps? > > I have found the thread. It has been discussed but I do not find it had a > clear outcome. At the end Eric has proposed the heartbeat/in-progress option > (which IMHO can only work together with a timeout) to which no-one objected. I > did not find other arguments against such functionality solid. You'll notice that anything anyone I respected objected to, even if I didn't agree, I dropped or replaced. I had such code. We can bring it back. But the objection was: 'what's the point?" They believed that everyone would just do it in a library and end up in the 'block forever' situation we have today. -Eric -- 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/