From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262968AbVGMQBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:01:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262963AbVGMQBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:01:45 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:58383 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262684AbVGMQBE (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Jul 2005 12:01:04 -0400 Message-ID: <42D53956.5020506@opersys.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:55:02 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?VG9tYXN6IEvFgm9jemtv?= CC: Vara Prasad , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: Merging relayfs? References: <17107.6290.734560.231978@tut.ibm.com> <17107.57046.817407.562018@tut.ibm.com> <17107.61271.924455.965538@tut.ibm.com> <42D498AF.5070401@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: > *NOT using realyfs* if it is not neccessary for possibly big amout > of feactures future KProbes IMO in this case is *fundamental*. > > To time where this base not requiring relayfs feactures will not be > integrated in kernel code better IMO will be stop merging relayfs. This part of the thread is really veering off-topic. This counters thing is your own personal crusade and has nothing to do with the fundamental need for a generic buffering mechanism such as relayfs. I would suggest you start a separate thread to discuss the implementation of a generic counters mechanism, if that's indeed what you're interested in. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546