From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762475AbYETXfd (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 19:35:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752896AbYETXfZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 19:35:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:58250 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752041AbYETXfY (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 May 2008 19:35:24 -0400 Message-ID: <48336039.3010308@firstfloor.org> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 01:35:21 +0200 From: Andi Kleen User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arjan van de Ven CC: corbet@lwn.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/11] Add unlocked_fasync References: <20080520528.793382059@firstfloor.org> <20080520152843.CF4181B4205@basil.firstfloor.org> <20080520085830.22c99115@infradead.org> <483318AE.2090306@firstfloor.org> <20080520130624.089ebf19@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080520130624.089ebf19@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > My concern is that the new API as long lived is ugly and not the right > thing. I assume Linus and others have similar concerns, and weigh that > over the "some obscure out of tree driver might break". What do you find ugly exactly? The prefix "unlocked_" ? Other than that there is no difference. Duplicated entry points are not great, but they will be going away. -Andi