From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>,
Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-block <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/14] pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #3]
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:10:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wjrrOgznCy3yUmcmQY1z_7vXVr6GbvKiy8cLvWbxpmzcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <157909503552.20155.3030058841911628518.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
So I no longer hate the implementation, but I do want to see the
actual user space users come out of the woodwork and try this out for
their use cases.
I'd hate to see a new event queue interface that people then can't
really use due to it not fulfilling their needs, or can't use for some
other reason.
We've had a fair number of kernel interfaces that ended up not being
used all that much, but had one or two minor users and ended up being
nasty long-term maintenance issues.. I don't want this to become yet
another such one.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 20:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-15 13:30 [RFC PATCH 00/14] pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications [ver #3] David Howells
2020-01-15 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 01/14] uapi: General notification queue definitions " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:30 ` [RFC PATCH 02/14] security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 03/14] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 04/14] pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 05/14] pipe: Add general notification queue support " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 06/14] keys: Add a notification facility " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 07/14] Add sample notification program " David Howells
2020-01-26 15:47 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 08/14] pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:31 ` [RFC PATCH 09/14] pipe: Add notification lossage handling " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:32 ` [RFC PATCH 10/14] Add a general, global device notification watch list " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:32 ` [RFC PATCH 11/14] block: Add block layer notifications " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:32 ` [RFC PATCH 12/14] usb: Add USB subsystem " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:32 ` [RFC PATCH 13/14] selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook " David Howells
2020-01-15 13:32 ` [RFC PATCH 14/14] smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks " David Howells
2020-01-15 20:10 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2020-02-11 0:56 ` [RFC PATCH 00/14] pipe: Keyrings, Block and USB notifications " Andres Freund
2020-01-15 21:07 ` David Howells
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