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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: Move sparse.git inside linux-kernel-2.6.git?
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:13:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A3A9FF2.1070607@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3A9C2A.8030906@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> sparse -does- serve as "libsparse" to a few independent projects, and
>> the current sparse/kernel has clear benefits for those projects.  Being 
> 
>         ^^^^
> 
> "current sparse/kernel separation"

Yes, sparse is a general-purpose tool (can be used by lots of apps),
unlike tools/perf/, which is strictly for Linux kernel use.

git is also a user of sparse, and there are plenty of git developers who
are not kernel developers.

-- 
~Randy
LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon
http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-18 19:20 RFC: Move sparse.git inside linux-kernel-2.6.git? Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-18 19:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-06-18 19:57   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-06-18 20:13     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-06-18 20:18   ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-06-18 20:40 ` Christopher Li
2009-06-20 19:37   ` Samuel Bronson
2009-06-21 18:33     ` Christopher Li
2009-06-21 23:17       ` Samuel Bronson
2009-06-22  7:57         ` Christopher Li
2009-06-25 14:48         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-02 23:21 ` Josh Triplett
2009-07-02 23:46   ` Christopher Li

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