Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

John Stoffel
2015-04-29T19:28:40Z

>>>>> "Steven" == Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

Steven> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 12:26:59PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
>>
>> If your customers wnat this feature, you're more than welcome to fork
>> the kernel and support it yourself. Oh wait... Redhat does that
>> already. So what's the problem? Just put it into RHEL (which I use
>> I admit, along with Debian/Mint) and be done with it.

Steven> Red Hat tries very hard to push things upstream. It's policy
Steven> is to not keep things for themselves, but always work with the
Steven> community. That way, everyone benefits. Ideally, we should
Steven> come up with a solution that works for all.

Yeah, I agree they have been good. I'm just reacting to the off the
cuff comment of "my customers need it" which isn't a justification for
this feature, esp when it hasn't been shown to be needed in the
kernel.

We went through alot of this with tux the in-kernel httpd server, and
pushing other stuff out to user-space over the years. Why this needs
to come in isn't clear. Or why not just a small part needing to come
in with the rest in userspace.

John