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From: Andi Kleen <andi@...>
To: <jassi_singh_brar@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: Re: An idea .... with code
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 - 4:24 am

jassi brar <jassi_singh_brar@yahoo.com> writes:


Can you please expand a bit why you think losetup is that complicated
and what the problem is with it?

AFAIK you're essentially just moving a minimal version of losetup
(with missing features like no offsets etc.) into the kernel and
frankly I fail to see the beauty in that. Or rather if you start with
losetup, why stop at mount, modprobe, ifconfig, mkfs, fsck, ls[1], ...?

For me it seems more that most of the file system based command
interfaces (/proc/mtrr comes to mind) are quite hard to use and
I prefer a proper command line tool with a manpage and --help
and a real parser any day.

-Andi

[1] I'm sure someone could come up with some scheme to do ls using sysfs 
and you could find someone on this list who said "cool" :)

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An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Sun Aug 24, 4:53 am)
[PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Tue Aug 26, 4:24 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 3:24 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 3:47 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 8:38 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 8:47 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Kasper Sandberg, (Wed Aug 27, 10:49 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Bill Davidsen, (Fri Aug 29, 10:57 pm)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 11:02 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Kasper Sandberg, (Thu Aug 28, 5:41 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, jassi brar, (Wed Aug 27, 9:24 pm)
Re: An idea .... with code, David Newall, (Wed Aug 27, 5:57 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Wed Aug 27, 6:01 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Alexey Dobriyan, (Tue Aug 26, 6:44 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Andi Kleen, (Tue Aug 26, 7:08 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Bill Davidsen, (Mon Aug 25, 10:47 pm)
Re: An idea .... with code, Jochen Voß, (Mon Aug 25, 8:22 am)
Re: An idea .... with code, Marcin Slusarz, (Mon Aug 25, 4:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Aug 24, 8:16 am)
Re: [PATCH 00/18] merge apic_32.c and apic_64.c, Ingo Molnar, (Sun Aug 24, 5:14 am)
[PATCH 18/18] x86: rename apic_32.c and apic_64.c to apic.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 17/18] x86: apic copy apic_64.c to apic_32.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 16/18] x86: apic copy calibrate_APIC_clock to each ot..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 15/18] x86: apic unify smp_spurious/error_interrupt, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 14/18] x86: merge header files in apic_xx.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 13/18] x86: copy detect_init_APIC to the other, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 12/18] x86: merge APIC_init_uniprocessor, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 11/18] x86: make apic_32/64.c more like, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 10/18] x86: add hard_smp_prossor_id with MACRO in io_..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 09/18] x86: use HAVE_X2APIC in apic_64.c, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 08/18] x86: apic_xx.c order variables, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 07/18] x86: apic - unify smp_apic_timer_interrupt, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 06/18] x86: apic_32.c should use __cpuinit section, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 05/18] x86: apic - unify setup_local_APIC, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 04/18] x86: apic_64.c - add sanity check for spurious..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 03/18] x86: apic - unify setup_apicpmtimer, Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 02/18] x86: apic - introduce get_physical_broadcast f..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)
[PATCH 01/18] x86: apic_64.c - setup_APIC_timer has to be __..., Yinghai Lu, (Sun Aug 24, 5:01 am)