Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:02:06 -0600 (MDT) | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger | From | jmerkey@wolfmoun ... |
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> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > >> Read it already. Quite a few large companies are using it at present >> and >> have been since 2000, BTW. > > The criterion for kernel inclusion isn't really whether it works, however. > It's whether other people would be able to understand it well enough to > support it if you disappear (or if somebody else has changes that require > changes to it). If it works well but isn't nice code, nobody really > benefits from having it in the kernel distribution rather than external > (like it's been for the past 8 years). If it is nice code (somewhat > regardless of whether it happens to work right now), people can work on it > and keep it in sync with the kernel as they change things. > > -Daniel > *This .sig left intentionally blank* >
It both works and is nice code. But I may not be impartial.
Jeff
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