From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20060822.142500.11271092.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1156276823.2476.22.camel@entropy> <20060822.133606.48392664.davem@davemloft.net> <1156281220.2476.65.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jmorris@namei.org, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zach.brown@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from dsl027-180-168.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.168]:49380 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751300AbWHVVYo (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:24:44 -0400 To: nmiell@comcast.net In-Reply-To: <1156281220.2476.65.camel@entropy> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Nicholas Miell Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:13:40 -0700 > And how is the quality of the work to be judged if the work isn't > commented, documented and explained, especially the userland-visible > parts that *cannot* *ever* *be* *changed* *or* *removed* once they're in > a stable kernel release? Are you even willing to look at the collection of example applications Evgeniy wrote against this API? That is the true test of a set of interfaces, what happens when you try to actually use them in real programs. Everything else is fluff, including standards and "documentation". He even bothered to benchmark things, and post assosciated graphs and performance analysis during the course of development.