From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758849AbXENVvx (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 17:51:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754645AbXENVvr (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 17:51:47 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([65.172.181.25]:39325 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754450AbXENVvq (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 May 2007 17:51:46 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:51:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] export eventfd symbols ... Message-Id: <20070514145137.30e6d019.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20070514214201.GA24107@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 May 2007 14:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > Export eventfd kernel functions to modules. > > > > Why? > > KVM developers asked for it. It seem they'll be using eventfd to signal > events to userspace. > yeah, there's no really easy way of doing this. Probably it's best if these exports get merged via the KVM git tree, once the proposed KVM changes have been suitably reviewed.