Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Merging relayfs? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 12 Jul 2005 06:36:09 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 08:10:42PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > > > Hi Andrew, can you please merge relayfs? It provides a low-overhead > > > logging and buffering capability, which does not currently exist in > > > the kernel. > > > > While the code is pretty nicely in shape it seems rather pointless to > > merge until an actual user goes with it. > > Ordinarily I'd agree. But this is a bit like kprobes - it's a funny thing > which other kernel features rely upon, but those features are often ad-hoc > and aren't intended for merging.
Yes, it's a special case because it's useful for custom debugging hacks. I would be in favour of merging it.
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