On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:40:32PM +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > What speaks against a patch the recplaces the epoll core by something that > > build on kevent while still supporting the epoll interface as a > > compatibility > > shim? > > There is no problem from my side, but epoll and kevent_poll differs on > some aspects, so it can be better to not replace them for a while.
Please explain the differences and why they are important. We really shouldn't keep on adding code without beeing able to replace older bits. If there's a really good reason we can keep things separate, but "epoll and kevent_poll differs on some aspects" is not one :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html