From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751549AbWGYU1D (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:27:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751564AbWGYU1C (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:27:02 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:64910 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751549AbWGYU1A (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:27:00 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: async network I/O, event channels, etc Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 13:25:54 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: <20060725132554.38773695@localhost.localdomain> References: <44C66FC9.3050402@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1153859155 26035 10.8.0.54 (25 Jul 2006 20:25:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:25:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.0 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:23:53 -0700 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > I was very much surprised by the reactions I got after my OLS talk. > Lots of people declared interest and even agreed with the approach and > asked me to do further ahead with all this. For those who missed it, > the paper and the slides are available on my home page: > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/ > > > As for the next steps I see a number of possible ways. The discussions > can be held on the usual mailing lists (i.e., lkml and netdev) but due > to the raw nature of the current proposal I would imagine that would be > mainly perceived as noise. > > So the second proposal is the I can create an appropriate mailing list > here. Alternatively possibly two lists, one for the event channel stuff > and one for the DMA/AIO part since the two parts are very much unrelated. > > I'd appreciate input from those who feel responsible for these lists. I > don't mind either way. If there is strong interest right now (let me > know, don't pollute the list) I can create mailing lists now and then if > necessary close them down and redirect traffic to lkml/netdev. > > Waiting for input... > I would prefer directing the API discussion to netdev@vger.kernel.org