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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: RFC: android logger feedback request
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:45:26 -0800
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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> Secondly, this is not a particularly new or radical interface. It is new
> to legacy Linux, but it's been in the Android Linux kernel for some years
> now, and it has worked well.

Sorry, but you know full well that is not a justification for _any_
chunk of code to be included in the main kernel tree.  Staging is fine,
but to add a new kernel/user api that looks at first glance, to merely
duplicate the existing in-kernel apis needs a very good explaination for
why it needs to be included.

greg k-h