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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:43:20AM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Consensus: > > ... > > - Dont support heirarchy for now > > Looks like this item can be dropped from the concensus ... ;). > > I for one would recommend getting the hierarchy right from the > beginning. > > Though I can appreciate that others were trying to "keep it simple" > and postpone dealing with such complications. I don't agree. > > Such stuff as this deeply affects all that sits on it. Get the > basic data shape presented by the kernel-user API right up front. > The rest will follow, much easier. Hierarchy has implications in not just the kernel-user API, but also on the controller design. I would prefer to progressively enhance the controller, not supporting hierarchy in the begining. However you do have a valid concern that, if we dont design the user-kernel API keeping hierarchy in mind, then we may break this interface when we latter add hierarchy support, which will be bad. One possibility is to design the user-kernel interface that supports hierarchy but not support creating hierarchical depths more than 1 in the initial versions. Would that work? -- Regards, vatsa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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