linux-kernel - Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Message-Id: <20060822143747.68acaf99.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:37:47 -0700
From:	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:13:02 -0700 Nicholas Miell wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 00:16 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:57:38PM -0700, Nicholas Miell (nmiell@...cast.net) wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 14:03 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > Of course, since you already know how all this stuff is supposed to
> > > work, you could maybe write it down somewhere?
> > 
> > I will write documantation, but as you can see some interfaces are
> > changed.
> 
> Thanks; rapidly changing interfaces need good documentation even more
> than stable interfaces simply because reverse engineering the intended
> API from a changing implementation becomes even more difficult.

OK, I don't quite get it.
Can you be precise about what you would like?

a.  good documentation
b.  a POSIX API
c.  a Windows-compatible API
d.  other?

and we won't make you use any of this code.

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~Randy
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