On Friday 18 April 2008 21:18:46 Andrew Morton wrote:
Thanks, fixed.
An excellent question, but I thought the modern kernel etiquette was to only
comment on whitespace and formatting, and call it "review"? :)
Yes, kinda-sorta in that it's a ring buffer. No, in that it's bidir and
consumption can be out-of-order (kind of important for I/O buffers).
But the reason I'm not proposing it as a syscall is that I'm not convinced
it's the One True Solution which everyone should be using. Time will tell:
it's clearly not tied to tun and it's been generically useful for virtual
I/O, but history has not been kind to new userspace interfaces.
Snot from previous version. Removed.
Yes, except I like the clarity and the BUG_ON.
"#include <copyright-gpl2-plus>" for me, just to add more inclement weather to
that teacup...
Thanks,
Rusty.
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