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SubjectRe: Merging relayfs?
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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.

-Andi
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