From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:10:32 -0800 > I certainly sympathize with this concern, given the importance of software > portability. However, the tiny-hardware alternative appears ot some sort > of special-purpose embedded OS, which most definitely will suffer from > software compatibility issues. I guess that the good news is that much > of the tiny hardware that used to be 8 or 16 bits is now 32 bits, which > means that it has at least some chance of running some form of Linux. ;-) And then if some fundamental part of userland (glibc, klibc, etc.) finds a useful way to use splice for a fundamental operation, we're back to square one. I simply do not agree with modifying the user facing interface, especially one with decades of precedence. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
