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Message-Id: <20070506125451.aac4b68f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:54:51 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com> Cc: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@...ilserver.org>, "Davi Arnaut" <davi@...ent.com.br>, "Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex On Sun, 6 May 2007 00:50:47 -0700 "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com> wrote: > > I really do not understand your point. You're too smart to not appreciate > > the beauty and the simmetry of objects that responds to a common interface > > (our files, win32 handles), and that fits our existing kernel infrastructure. > > You're blinded by this symmetry. Not everything that looks like a > good fit is a good idea. This is one case. Get over it, poll is not > powerful enough to serve as the unifying event mechanism. What is your position on the timerfd/signalfd/etc patches? Seems to me that if we were to have fancy new event-delivery machinery like kevent then the timerfd/signalfd work is heading in the other direction and ultimately would prove to have been unneeded? - 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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