He doesn't read l-k apparently.
> Ben: end of discussion. I will _not_ apply any patches for aio if they
> aren't openly discussed. We're not microsoft, and we're not Sun. We're
> "Open Source", not "cram things down peoples throat and spring new
> features on them as a fait accompli".
Discuss them then to your heart's content. I've posted announcements to
both l-k and linux-aio which are both on marc.theaimsgroup.com if you're
too lazy to get your IS to add a new list yo the internal news gateway.
> The ghost of "binary compatibility" is not an issue - if Ben or anytbody
> else finds a flaw with the design, it's a hell of a lot better to have
> that flaw fixed _before_ it's part of my kernel rather than afterwards.
Thanks for the useful feedback on the userland interface then. Evidently
nobody cares within the community about improving functionality on a
reasonable timescale. If this doesn't change soon, Linux is doomed.
-ben
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