From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751438AbVH3Xeh (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751440AbVH3Xeg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:34:36 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:51153 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbVH3Xeg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:34:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:34:40 +0100 From: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk To: Andrew Morton Cc: Joel Becker , phillips@istop.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs Message-ID: <20050830233440.GA26264@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <200508310854.40482.phillips@istop.com> <20050830231307.GE22068@insight.us.oracle.com> <20050830162846.5f6d0a53.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050830162846.5f6d0a53.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks. I'm sure there's some > way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase? Careful - you've almost reinvented the concept of library, which would violate any number of patents...