From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422838AbXCGSkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:40:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422987AbXCGSkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:40:17 -0500 Received: from relay.2ka.mipt.ru ([194.85.82.65]:48076 "EHLO 2ka.mipt.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422838AbXCGSkP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:40:15 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:32:42 +0300 From: Evgeniy Polyakov To: Kirk Kuchov Cc: Ingo Molnar , Pavel Machek , Davide Libenzi , Eric Dumazet , Theodore Tso , Linus Torvalds , Ulrich Drepper , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , Zach Brown , "David S. Miller" , Suparna Bhattacharya , Jens Axboe , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3 Message-ID: <20070307183242.GA29283@2ka.mipt.ru> References: <20070303203140.GA756@2ka.mipt.ru> <20070306081935.GB2040@elf.ucw.cz> <20070307173953.GA27603@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (2ka.mipt.ru [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:33:04 +0300 (MSK) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:21:19PM -0300, Kirk Kuchov (kirk.kuchov@gmail.com) wrote: > On 3/7/07, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > >* Kirk Kuchov wrote: > > > >> I don't believe I'm wasting my time explaining this. They don't exist > >> as /dev/null, they are just fucking _LINKS_. > >[...] > >> > Either stop flaming kernel developers or become one. It is that > >> > simple. > >> > >> If I were to become a kernel developer I would stick with FreeBSD. > >> [...] > > > >Hey, really, this is an excellent idea: what a boon you could become to > >FreeBSD, again! How much they must be longing for your insightful > >feedback, how much they must be missing your charming style and tactful > >approach! I bet they'll want to print your mails out, frame them and > >hang them over their fireplace, to remember the good old days on cold > >snowy winter days, with warmth in their hearts! Please? > > > > http://www.totallytom.com/thecureforgayness.html Fonts are a bit bad in my browser :) Kirk, I understand your frustration - yes, Linux is not the perfect place to include startups ideas, and yes it lacks some features modern (or old) systems support for years, but things change with time. I posted a patch which allows to poll for signals, it can be trivially adopted to support timers and essentially any other events. Kevent did that too, but some things are just too radical for immediate support, especially when majority of users do not require additional functionality. People do work, and a lot of them do really good work, so no need for rude talks about how things are bad. Things change - even I support that, although kevent ignorance should put me into the first line with you :) Be good, and be cool. > -- > Kirk Kuchov -- Evgeniy Polyakov