From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757897AbYDJQ1t (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755508AbYDJQ1m (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:42 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:43942 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755227AbYDJQ1l (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:27:36 -0500 From: Paul Jackson To: "Bert Wesarg" Cc: travis@sgi.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] x86: add cpus_scnprintf function v3 Message-Id: <20080410112736.6c5ee654.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90804100914n4b08cc9di9a6ab8b936f25644@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080408184301.651388000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <36ca99e90804091051k7c2cc97neba0ca1967625433@mail.gmail.com> <20080410071009.a5232b12.pj@sgi.com> <36ca99e90804100914n4b08cc9di9a6ab8b936f25644@mail.gmail.com> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bert wrote: > My statement from above doesn't reflect my opinion. I'm still in > flavor with the mask output. And from this discussion, I found a new > point for the mask output: its bounded ;-) Ok > I just wanted to note, that these new list attributes would be the > only way to 'change' the api, ie. introduce a new api and deprecate > the old one, and not change the format of the present api. Agreed -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.940.382.4214