Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

[Jeff Garzik]

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik (jeff@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > Comments:
> >
> > * [oh, everybody will hate me for saying this, but...]  to me, "kevent" 
> > implies an internal kernel subsystem.  I would rather call it "uevent" 
> > or anything else lacking a 'k' prefix.
>
> It is kernel subsystem indeed, which exports some of its part to
> userspace.
> I previously thought that prefix 'k' can only be confused with KDE.

It is a true statement to say "without the kevent subsystem, userspace 
lacks uevent handling".

And let's be honest, the main consumers of this will be userspace apps, 
and a few in-kernel users pretending to be userspace apps (kernel threads).

	Jeff



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/