On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:27:14AM +0100, Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Maybe. It is not up to me to decide. But "it is faster" is _not_ the > only merge criterium.
Of course not! Even if kevent has the same speed, it still allows to handle _any_ kind of events without any major surgery - a very tiny structure of lock and list head and you can process your own kernel event in userspace with timers, signals, io events, private userspace events and others without races and invention of differnet hacks for different types - _this_ is main point. > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) > http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- Evgeniy Polyakov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
