From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [take22 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:05:53 -0500 Message-ID: <455076A1.3000707@garzik.org> References: <5c49b0ed0611021140u360342f2v1e83c73d03eea329@mail.gmail.com> <20061103084240.GB1184@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061103085712.GA3725@elf.ucw.cz> <20061103.010413.85690195.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru, nate.diller@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olecom@flower.upol.cz, drepper@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, zach.brown@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org, chase.venters@clientec.com, johann.borck@densedata.com Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33977 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754219AbWKGMF5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2006 07:05:57 -0500 To: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20061103.010413.85690195.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Pavel Machek > Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 09:57:12 +0100 > >> Not sure what you are smoking, but "there's unsigned long in *bsd >> version, lets rewrite it from scratch" sounds like very bad idea. What >> about fixing that one bit you don't like? > > I disagree, it's more like since we have to be structure incompatible > anyways, let's design something superior if we can. Definitely agreed. Jeff