From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Ben Nizette <bn@niasdigital.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>,
Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>, Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCHES] Re: Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:52:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080620065253.GA14238@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1213942750.2336.43.camel@moss.renham>
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:19:10PM +1000, Ben Nizette wrote:
> Looks great, thx :-). I'll convert some of my stuff over to this
> interface and see how it flies in the real world.
Excellent. What is your stuff, btw? Got code? Love to see it.
> ISTR when I did this I kept the old semantics and used ERR_PTR and
> friends if things went pear-shaped. Given the small number of in-tree
> users needing to be moved over, a more intrusive change for the sake of
> a cleaner API like you've done is probably a good thing anyway :-)
Yeah, I like this better than ERR_PTR.
If you like the macros, I'll try to make the next merge window
as well. So let me know.
joel
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He had a nice big fat cigar.
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Oracle
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-20 6:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 21:25 Is configfs the right solution for configuration based fs? Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-06-09 2:28 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-11 9:04 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-09 9:03 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-10 0:12 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-10 8:01 ` Johannes Berg
2008-06-10 8:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-06-10 22:12 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-19 2:48 ` [RFC PATCHES] " Joel Becker
2008-06-20 6:19 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-20 6:52 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2008-06-20 9:22 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-20 21:37 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-21 1:03 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-21 2:02 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-21 8:03 ` Ben Nizette
2008-06-21 8:44 ` Joel Becker
2008-06-21 11:44 ` Ben Nizette
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