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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	menage@google.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 5/5] cgroups: subsystem dependencies
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:11:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1DEE09.4010508@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091204085854.GE18912@andrew.cmu.edu>

> This patch adds a mechanism with which a subsystem can specify dependencies on
> other subsystems. Since subsystems can come and go, it would not be useful to
> refer to a depended-upon subsystem by subsys_id, so instead a NULL-terminated
> array of strings must be specified. Validation is done by scanning for each
> potential subsystem its list of subsystem names with strcmp at the end of
> parse_cgroupfs_options.

I once posted a patch to implement this feature, but it was
rejected by Andrew, because there was no user using it.

And still there is no user, right?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-08  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-04  8:53 [RFC] [PATCH 0/5] cgroups: support for module-loadable subsystems Ben Blum
2009-12-04  8:55 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/5] cgroups: revamp subsys array Ben Blum
2009-12-08  7:38   ` Li Zefan
2009-12-09  5:50     ` Ben Blum
2009-12-09  6:07       ` Li Zefan
2009-12-09  6:09         ` Li Zefan
2009-12-09  8:27         ` Ben Blum
2009-12-10  3:18           ` Li Zefan
2009-12-10  5:19             ` Ben Blum
2009-12-10  6:00               ` Li Zefan
2009-12-10  6:13                 ` Ben Blum
2009-12-09  8:36     ` Ben Blum
2009-12-04  8:56 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/5] cgroups: subsystem module loading interface Ben Blum
2009-12-04  8:57 ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/5] cgroups: net_cls as module Ben Blum
2009-12-08  6:07   ` Li Zefan
2009-12-04  8:58 ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/5] cgroups: subsystem module unloading Ben Blum
2009-12-04  8:58 ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/5] cgroups: subsystem dependencies Ben Blum
2009-12-08  6:11   ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-12-09  1:08     ` Ben Blum
2009-12-09  1:40       ` Li Zefan

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