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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:39:33 -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. Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik (jeff@...zik.org) wrote: >> 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. > > It is kernel subsystem indeed, which exports some of its part to > userspace. > I previously thought that prefix 'k' can only be confused with KDE. It is a true statement to say "without the kevent subsystem, userspace lacks uevent handling". And let's be honest, the main consumers of this will be userspace apps, and a few in-kernel users pretending to be userspace apps (kernel threads). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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