Andrew, Linus, et al: Here's the latest version of the Simple Topology API. I've broken the patches into a solely in-kernel portion, and a portion that exposes the API to userspace via syscalls and prctl. This patch (part 1) is the in-kernel part. I hope that the smaller versions of these patches will draw more feedback, comments, flames, etc. Other than that, the patch remains relatively unchanged from the last posting. Cheers! -Matt