From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Evgeniy Polyakov Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc4-mm[12] - ULOG problem Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 10:27:17 +0400 Message-ID: <1116570437.21310.109.camel@uganda> References: <20050519000809.2fca25c5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050519.114813.85686672.davem@davemloft.net> Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-nBDj0w30x2x6ERkyL24d" Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <20050519.114813.85686672.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --=-nBDj0w30x2x6ERkyL24d Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:48 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: James Morris > Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:19:33 -0400 (EDT) >=20 > > On Thu, 19 May 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > >=20 > > > We should remove the feature. If there is demonstrated need for mult= iple > > > instances then it should be done by more conventional means - syscall= , > > > allocation of a device major then use the minor as a selector or what= ever. > >=20 > > I'd suggest removing the connector code completely. >=20 > I totally agree, it's crap at the current time and the author doesn't > fix the problems being shown in it, in fact he defends some of them > even this one. It needs lots of work still. There were no problems reported. Completely. What I defend is ability to function correctly when some changes=20 may be introduced by providing some extensions that may be used. --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski --=-nBDj0w30x2x6ERkyL24d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCjYNFIKTPhE+8wY0RAtoRAJ0Ufb586V3GnUmHmemEBTnY0SEZPACfU6u0 5yW0wq0s1Q9difSukvT27Ms= =Pdlu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nBDj0w30x2x6ERkyL24d--