From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Drepper Subject: Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description. Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:23:25 -0800 Message-ID: <456B3B2D.9040302@redhat.com> References: <11641265982190@2ka.mipt.ru> <4564E2AB.1020202@redhat.com> <20061123115504.GB20294@2ka.mipt.ru> <4565FDED.2050003@redhat.com> <20061124114614.GA32545@2ka.mipt.ru> <45671E16.6060005@redhat.com> <20061124164916.GA4012@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: David Miller , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37848 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758529AbWK0T3e (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:29:34 -0500 To: Evgeniy Polyakov In-Reply-To: <20061124164916.GA4012@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > That index is provided by kernel for userspace so that userspace coul= d > determine where indexes are - of course userspace can maintain it > itself, but it can also use provided by kernel. Indeed. That's what I said. But I also pointed out that the field is=20 only useful in simple minded programs and certainly not in the wrappers= =20 the runtime (glibc) will provide. As you said yourself, there is no real need for the value being there,=20 userland can keep track of it by itself. So, let's reduce the interfac= e. > I do not care actually about that index, but as you have probably not= iced,=20 > there was such an interface already, and I changed it. So, this will = be the=20 > last change of the interface. You think it should not be exported - > fine, it will not be. Thanks. --=20 =E2=9E=A7 Ulrich Drepper =E2=9E=A7 Red Hat, Inc. =E2=9E=A7 444 Castro S= t =E2=9E=A7 Mountain View, CA =E2=9D=96