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From: Karim Yaghmour <karim@opersys.com>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Robert Wisniewski <bob@watson.ibm.com>,
	Tim Bird <tim.bird@AM.SONY.COM>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:12:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41FE9F57.5030603@opersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16894.40247.701998.555392@tut.ibm.com>


Tom Zanussi wrote:
> I don't think they need to be mutually exclusive - we could keep
> relay_reserve(), but the relay_write() that's currently built on top
> of relay_reserve() would use the putc code instead.  It's complicating
> the API a bit, but if it makes everyone happy...

Actually I think that this would be a much better use of relay_write(),
which is unlikely to be used by any client that requires relay_reserve()
to start with. Also, I don't think it complicates the API at all.
Compared to the original API, what we've got now is very simple. So
it basically boils down to:
- use relay_write() if you want putc-like functionality.
- use relay_reserve() if you want to reserve space and write separately.

This is even better than having a separate ad-hoc mode.

Karim
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-31 21:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 19:38 [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 2 Tom Zanussi
2005-01-28 20:48 ` Tim Bird
2005-01-28 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2005-01-29  8:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-30  4:58   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 12:57     ` Andi Kleen
2005-01-31 16:26       ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 19:41         ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 21:03           ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 21:12             ` Karim Yaghmour [this message]
2005-01-31 19:38       ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-29  8:15 ` Greg KH
2005-01-30  5:02   ` Tom Zanussi
2005-01-31 22:10   ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 22:33     ` Greg KH
2005-01-31 22:35       ` Karim Yaghmour
2005-01-31 23:12 ` Roman Zippel
2005-02-01 15:44   ` Tom Zanussi

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