From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: <45635F39.1000708@garzik.org> References: <11630606361046@2ka.mipt.ru> <45564EA5.6020607@redhat.com> <20061113105458.GA8182@2ka.mipt.ru> <4560F07B.10608@redhat.com> <20061120082500.GA25467@2ka.mipt.ru> <4562102B.5010503@redhat.com> <20061121095302.GA15210@2ka.mipt.ru> <45633049.2000209@redhat.com> <20061121174334.GA25518@2ka.mipt.ru> <20061121184605.GA7787@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Ulrich Drepper , David Miller , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro Return-path: To: Evgeniy Polyakov In-Reply-To: <20061121184605.GA7787@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Another: pass a 'flags' argument to kevent_init(2). I guarantee you will need it eventually. It IMO would help with later binary compatibility, if nothing else. You wouldn't need a new syscall to introduce struct kevent_ring_v2. Jeff