From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:03:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:03:47 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:32820 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:03:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:03:28 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Henderson Subject: Re: unregistered changes to the user<->kernel API Message-ID: <20010614200328.A2115@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010614191219.A30567@athlon.random> <3B28F376.1F528D5A@mandrakesoft.com> <20010614194419.A715@athlon.random> <3B28F9EC.D08D3D52@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3B28F9EC.D08D3D52@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:52:44PM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 01:52:44PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > You're missing the point -- it's a bad precedent. > > How many kernel forks and patches exist out there on the net? How many of them are applied to 90% of kernels running out there? How many of them will get merged eventually? How many of them makes modifications to the kernel that are visible to userspace in any possibly configuration of the kernel? > Tangent: Why is this webserver-specific crap in kernel_stat anyway? It > Even when merging Tux, I would hope Linus would not apply this > particular change. Indeed, I also said this in my first email :) Andrea