Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757005Ab2FEHrV (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 03:47:21 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:63951 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756539Ab2FEHrT (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jun 2012 03:47:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FCD14F1.1030105@gmail.com> References: <20120507121527.GA19526@lizard> <4FA82056.2070706@gmail.com> <20120601122118.GA6128@lizard> <4FCC7592.9030403@kernel.org> <20120604113811.GA4291@lizard> <4FCD14F1.1030105@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 10:47:18 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VfUf6q7FqdXOjonR_rMAbxvDIKY Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes... From: Pekka Enberg To: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Anton Vorontsov , Minchan Kim , Leonid Moiseichuk , John Stultz , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org, patches@linaro.org, kernel-team@android.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1031 Lines: 21 On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: >> Note that 1) and 2) are not problems per se, it's just implementation >> details, easy stuff. Vmevent is basically an ABI/API, and I didn't >> hear anybody who would object to vmevent ABI idea itself. More than >> this, nobody stop us from implementing in-kernel vmevent API, and >> make Android Lowmemory killer use it, if we want to. > > I never agree "it's mere ABI" discussion. Until the implementation is ugly, > I never agree the ABI even if syscall interface is very clean. I don't know what discussion you are talking about. I also don't agree that something should be merged just because the ABI is clean. The implementation must also make sense. I don't see how we disagree here at all. -- 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/