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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk
	output for crash logging
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:17:46 -0700
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To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
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On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 12:05 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > Another note, usually when submitting new interfaces like this you
> > should also submit the code that uses the interface .. In your case you
> > might not be able to do that, but it could never be accepted without at
> > least one user.
> 
> i really doubt that.  lack of existing tangible users makes it a
> harder case, but it certainly is not a "never" case.  there is plenty
> of examples in the tree where things were merged without any users and
> the commit wouldnt be immediately leveraged.


Well, I did say "usually" .. I invite you to give some of the "plenty of
examples in the tree", you might surprise me..

Daniel