From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: hch@lst.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 1 of 2] Add interface to md driver for userspace monitoring of events.
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:07:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040906160738.368c20f3.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16700.60002.246730.450275@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > poll on procfs is defintily abuse, even in categories of the use procfs
> > every times.
> >
>
> Oh well.. If you gain more from the patch not going in than I gain
> from it going in, so be it.
That's not the point. Sure, the code works and is useful. But it takes a
crappy interface and makes it crappier.
You know where we'd end up if we took that attitude all the time, yes?
Could we explore a medium-term plan to tidy all this up?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-06 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 2:27 [PATCH md 0 of 2] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-09-03 2:27 ` [PATCH md 2 of 2] Correct "working_disk" counts for raid5 and raid6 NeilBrown
2004-09-03 2:27 ` [PATCH md 1 of 2] Add interface to md driver for userspace monitoring of events NeilBrown
2004-09-03 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 1:05 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-06 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-06 22:53 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-06 23:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-09-07 0:53 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-07 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
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