linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree

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Date:	Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:27:49 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com>
Cc:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	"torvalds@...ux-foundation.org" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"viro@...iv.linux.org.uk" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] notification tree - try 37!

On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 11:55 +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 Aug 2010 11:12:41 Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 Aug 2010 11:01:09 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > > I'm quite sure that both of these issues have been discussed already.
> >
> > Ok, I obviosuly missed it. Do you have a pointer perhaps?
> 
> I have found the thread. It has been discussed but I do not find it had a
> clear outcome. At the end Eric has proposed the heartbeat/in-progress option
> (which IMHO can only work together with a timeout) to which no-one objected. I
> did not find other arguments against such functionality solid.

You'll notice that anything anyone I respected objected to, even if I
didn't agree, I dropped or replaced.  I had such code.  We can bring it
back.  But the objection was: 'what's the point?"  They believed that
everyone would just do it in a library and end up in the 'block forever'
situation we have today.

-Eric

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