Re: [PATCH 0/5] Some vmevent fixes...

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue Jun 05 2012 - 03:47:20 EST


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:05 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Note that 1) and 2) are not problems per se, it's just implementation
>> details, easy stuff. Vmevent is basically an ABI/API, and I didn't
>> hear anybody who would object to vmevent ABI idea itself. More than
>> this, nobody stop us from implementing in-kernel vmevent API, and
>> make Android Lowmemory killer use it, if we want to.
>
> I never agree "it's mere ABI" discussion. Until the implementation is ugly,
> I never agree the ABI even if syscall interface is very clean.

I don't know what discussion you are talking about.

I also don't agree that something should be merged just because the
ABI is clean. The implementation must also make sense. I don't see how
we disagree here at all.
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