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From: "Mike Frysinger" <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] emit-crash-char: Allow diversion of printk output for crash logging
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:05:17 -0400
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To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
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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.
-mike