linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708300458120.7717@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:01:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> Davide -- ping!  Can you please offer your comments about this change, and
> also thoughts on Jon's and my comments about a more radical API change
> later  in this thread.

IMO the complexity of the resulting API (and resulting patch), and the ABI 
change, is not justified by the added value.



- Davide


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