Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030457Ab2HPUMi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:12:38 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:44369 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030365Ab2HPUMf (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:12:35 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:12:53 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Frederic Weisbecker , LKML , Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -v2 0/4] Persistent events Message-ID: <20120816141253.0142ddd0@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1345139123-15212-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> References: <1345139123-15212-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 788 Lines: 20 On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:45:19 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote: > off and on I get some free time to work on that, here's the latest > incarnation. It contains review feedback from the earlier round. Can I add one small request for the next round? I've looked through the patches and the code a bit, and I still have absolutely no clue of what a "persistent event" is or why I might want one. Now, admittedly, I'm slower than most, but it still might not hurt to add some overall description of what this is for...? Thanks, jon -- 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/