From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933279AbXCaB3z (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:29:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933286AbXCaB3z (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:29:55 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([64.71.152.41]:47614 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933279AbXCaB3y (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:29:54 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:29:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Oleg Nesterov Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] signal/timer/event fds v8 - anonymous inode source ... In-Reply-To: <20070330160850.d7988a87.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20070330123943.8df1aa92.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070330160850.d7988a87.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'd say panic. There's no much point in limping along with an > incorrectly-working kernel, only to have some small number of apps fail > mysteriously later on. Panic it is ... > > > Can we make this optional if CONFIG_EMBEDDED? You plan on converting epoll > > > to use this facility, but with CONFIG_EPOLL=n, this is all dead code? > > > > Hmmm, the whole point is that all this stuff works with or without epoll. > > And epoll need no changes to support this. > > I'm suggesting that all known clients of anon_inode be made optional. > Hence anon_iode can become optional too. > > It's a desirable objective, at least. The default, really. Ok, I'll put them under Kconf. - Davide