Re: [patch 5/5] elf: Add support for loading ET_CKPT files

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Fri Oct 21 2011 - 14:42:46 EST


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:36:28PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
...
>
> > I think this comes back to why one-stop-solution-in-kernel is a bad
> > idea for CR. My impression is that when people say "that would
> > require too many small API updatesa", it usually means that they
> > haven't really thought about each necessary piece enough and just

Don't claim such things, Tejun. Yes, I'm missing a number of things
(the same applies to you as well), but this patch was not 'just a
fast way to achieve what we need'. It's rather an attempt to gather
all things I've missed and provide more robust/solid version at the
next iteration (regargless which form this patch appeared, complete
user-space solution, some kernel api extension of whatever).

> > hacked something up lumpy and fuzzy on the edges. The thing is that
> > no matter how you lump them, those problems don't go away and
> > attacking things in small understandable API pieces not only ensures
> > the update itself makes sense and may be useful for others too but
> > also forces people to actually think about each problem.
> >
>

Cyrill
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