linux-kernel - Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Date:	Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:16:30 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
CC:	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>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

Comments:

* [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...]  to me, "kevent" 
implies an internal kernel subsystem.  I would rather call it "uevent" 
or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix.

* I like the absolute timespec (and use of timespec itself)

* more on naming:  I think kevent_open would be more natural than 
kevent_init, since it opens a file descriptor.

* why is KEVENT_MAX not equal to KEVENT_POSIX_TIMER?  (perhaps answer 
this question in a comment, if it is not a mistake)

* Kill all the CONFIG_KEVENT_xxx sub-options, or hide them under 
CONFIG_EMBEDDED.  Application developers should NOT be left wondering 
whether or support for KEVENT_INODE was compiled into the kernel.

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