From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761815AbYEUEs1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 00:48:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbYEUEsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 00:48:18 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:37645 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750983AbYEUEsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 May 2008 00:48:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:47:59 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andi Kleen Cc: corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/11] Add unlocked_fasync Message-ID: <20080520214759.1a210297@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <48336039.3010308@firstfloor.org> References: <20080520528.793382059@firstfloor.org> <20080520152843.CF4181B4205@basil.firstfloor.org> <20080520085830.22c99115@infradead.org> <483318AE.2090306@firstfloor.org> <20080520130624.089ebf19@infradead.org> <48336039.3010308@firstfloor.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 21 May 2008 01:35:21 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > > > My concern is that the new API as long lived is ugly and not the > > right thing. I assume Linus and others have similar concerns, and > > weigh that over the "some obscure out of tree driver might break". > > What do you find ugly exactly? The prefix "unlocked_" ? yes exactly