From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] flag parameters: socket and socketpair Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 20:05:00 -0700 Message-ID: <20080505200500.0d1018df.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <200805050342.m453gktl029817@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20080505185850.789d870a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481FC38A.6070805@redhat.com> <20080505194221.4349418b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <481FC94C.8090203@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Ulrich Drepper Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59770 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311AbYEFDFV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 23:05:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <481FC94C.8090203@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 05 May 2008 19:58:20 -0700 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sorry to sound slow, but what do we gain from all this? Your covering > > description was heavy in references to some earlier discussion to which I > > obviously paid little attention and now I'm lost. > > What we gain is that the only change for a new flag is a new entry in > the appropriate table. The reference to non-sequential file descriptors > refers to > > http://lwn.net/Articles/236724/ What I meant was "what does this whole patchset do"? Believe it or not, for a new reader, that is somewhat unobvious. Perhaps one could work it out with sufficient googling and thread-trolling.