Re: Linux 2.6.36-rc7
From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Fri Oct 08 2010 - 08:06:49 EST
On Thursday 07 October 2010 19:49:28 Eric Paris wrote:
> The safest thing would probably be to punt the syscalls to 2.6.37.
> Which is sad since I know a number of people are already working against
> them, but maybe that proves it's the best approach?
I agree with removing the syscalls from 2.6.36 because of the following
reasons:
* Reviewers have complained that the feature was not ready to be merged, yet.
* At least some of the criticism did not get addressed (neither discussed nor
fixed).
* Some weaknesses in the interface design were only identified and fixed late
in the -rc phase, changing the ABI. There may be more issues, like the
priority discussion. This might leave us with a broken ABI we would need
to support forever.
(Making fanotify fit for HSM hasn't been thought through at all AFAIK but
fanotify has legitimate use cases apart from HSM, so I don't necessarily
consider this a blocker.)
* The code has shown to contain the kinds of bugs which show that it was not
tested very well before merging.
Thanks,
Andreas
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