netdev - Re: [PATCH v10 net-next 2/2] net: filter: split filter.h and expose eBPF to user space

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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 07:23:29 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
Cc:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 net-next 2/2] net: filter: split filter.h and expose
 eBPF to user space


* Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com> wrote:

> > I don't think the speed up of the llvm submission is a good 
> > argument, this sounds to me similar to the "please apply this 
> > patch that reserves this new netlink family in 
> > include/linux/netlink.h, I promise this new subsystem will be 
> > submitted soon though. Meanwhile this will speed up 
> > submission of my userspace software to distributions for 
> > packaging" argument.
> 
> You're not correct here. I'm not saying 'I promise it will be 
> submitted'. There _were_ already submitted. [...]

And this split-up smaller submissions was requested by David 
Miller, the networking maintainer, so if Pablo wants another 
submission format, he needs to take it up with David - we can't 
do both at once obviously.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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