From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:11:10 +1100
> The third (hard to extend cleanly) is a good point, and is a valid > criticism of the current set of perfmon2 system calls, I think. > However, the goal of being able to extend the interface tends to be in > opposition to the goal of having strong typing of the interface. > Things like a multiplexed syscall or an ioctl are much easier to > extend but that is at the expense of losing strong typing. I disagree. With netlink we can just add new attributes when a new need arises for a particular interface. The attribute code describes the type precisely, so there is no loss of strong typing at all. - 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/
