Re: [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation

Alan Cox
2007-05-10T13:01:07Z

On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:52:26 +0300
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:

> On 5/10/07, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > "blobs of crap" - in whose opinion. Yours. So you don't want the kernel
> > to mention things you personally don't approve of. Thats straight forward
> > censorship and has no place in free software.
>
> Out of kernel code comes and goes, so why mention it in-tree? Besides,
> what's wrong with the suggested "can be used for tracing or
> performance accounting?"

Because people want to know what it is really for ? It's quite amazing
really at the same time as people are posting crypto keys everywhere in
defiance of USSA law, we've got free software people trying to remove
references to a piece of out of tree software, and one that is free
software.

And as I keep saying the tree is full of references to out of tree stuff.
The documentation directory alone currently contains over a thousand http
URLS as of 2.6.21-rc6-mm1.

Alan