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