Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:39:33 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [take26-resend1 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. |
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Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:16:30AM -0500, Jeff Garzik (jeff@garzik.org) 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
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