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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@istop.com>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:51:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200508310951.07112.phillips@istop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050830233440.GA26264@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:34, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk wrote:
> 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...

I will keep my eyes open for library candidates as I go.  For example, the 
binary blob operations really cry out for it.

Regards,

Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30 22:54 [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:57 ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 22:59   ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:03     ` [RFC][PATCH 4 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:30       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:06     ` [RFC][PATCH 3 " Stephen Hemminger
2005-08-30 23:18       ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:10     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:22   ` [RFC][PATCH 2 " Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 1 " Joel Becker
2005-08-30 23:25   ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:35     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-30 23:28   ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-30 23:34     ` viro
2005-08-30 23:51       ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2005-08-30 23:37     ` Daniel Phillips
2005-08-31  0:03     ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  3:53     ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:12       ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:41         ` Joel Becker
2005-09-04  4:54           ` Joel Becker
2005-09-07 20:31             ` Greg KH

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