From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266574AbUIOCKd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266627AbUIOCKd (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:33 -0400 Received: from peabody.ximian.com ([130.57.169.10]:15548 "EHLO peabody.ximian.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266574AbUIOCKa (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer From: Robert Love To: Tim Hockin Cc: Kay Sievers , Greg KH , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20040915011146.GA27782@hockin.org> References: <20040904005433.GA18229@kroah.com> <1094353088.2591.19.camel@localhost> <20040905121814.GA1855@vrfy.org> <20040906020601.GA3199@vrfy.org> <20040910235409.GA32424@kroah.com> <1094875775.10625.5.camel@lucy> <20040911165300.GA17028@kroah.com> <20040913144553.GA10620@vrfy.org> <20040915000753.GA24125@kroah.com> <20040915010901.GA19524@vrfy.org> <20040915011146.GA27782@hockin.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1095214229.20763.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 1.5.94.1 (1.5.94.1-1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 18:11 -0700, Tim Hockin wrote: Hey, Tim. > I don't have any concrete examples right now, but it seems that this is > being locked down pretty tightly for no real reason... > > Just a passing thought. I am fearful of the overly strict lock down, too. I mean, we already ditched the entire payload. But so long as you can always add a new action, what complaint do you have? In other words, all this does is force the use of the enum, which ensures that we try to reuse existing actions, prevent typos, and so on. Cool? Robert Love