From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:18:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20061227171854.GA15975@elte.hu> References: <20061227153855.GA25898@in.ibm.com> <20061227162530.GA23000@infradead.org> <20061227165500.GB10077@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-aio@kvack.org, akpm@osdl.org, drepper@redhat.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jakub@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:58796 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964775AbWL0RWA (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:22:00 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061227165500.GB10077@elte.hu> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > unified event system for Linux we need people to help out with > > straightening out these even provides as Evgeny seems to be > > unwilling/unable to do the work himself and the duplication is > > simply not acceptable. > > yeah. The internal machinery should be as unified as possible - but > different sets of APIs can be offered, to make it easy for people to > extend their existing apps in the most straightforward way. just to expand on this: i dont think this should be an impediment to the POSIX AIO patches. We should get some movement into this and should give the capability to glibc and applications. Kernel-internal unification is something we are pretty good at doing after the fact. (and if any of the APIs dies or gets very uncommon we know in which direction to unify) Ingo