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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	akpm@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unexport get_wchan
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:11:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907181130.GA12595@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094576868.9607.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:07:49PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2004-09-07 at 15:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > only usedby procfs which certainly can't be modular
> 
> And multiple out of tree debuggers. Christoph - do some basic homework.
> Also save the "so merge it" crap for someone else before you come up
> with that comment. Given the choice between a few exports of relevant
> functionality and merging some of the open source stuff that uses it we
> are far far better off with the export.
> 
> Plus Linus has a random personal and unreasonable hatred of debugging
> tools so they'll never get merged anyway without forking the kernel.

Which debuging tool?  Both kdb and xmon don't use it.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 14:45 [PATCH] unexport get_wchan Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 17:07 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:11   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-09-07 17:29     ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 18:49       ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-07 19:38         ` Andreas Dilger
2004-09-07 18:59       ` Arjan van de Ven

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