Re: [patch 1/13] signal/timer/event fds v8 - anonymous inode source...

[Davide Libenzi]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> I'd say panic.  There's no much point in limping along with an
> incorrectly-working kernel, only to have some small number of apps fail
> mysteriously later on.

Panic it is ...


> > > Can we make this optional if CONFIG_EMBEDDED?  You plan on converting epoll
> > > to use this facility, but with CONFIG_EPOLL=n, this is all dead code?
> > 
> > Hmmm, the whole point is that all this stuff works with or without epoll. 
> > And epoll need no changes to support this.
> 
> I'm suggesting that all known clients of anon_inode be made optional. 
> Hence anon_iode can become optional too.
> 
> It's a desirable objective, at least.  The default, really.

Ok, I'll put them under Kconf.



- Davide


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