From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754739Ab1LVDre (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:47:34 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:54423 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752983Ab1LVDrb (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:47:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:45:26 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Tim Bird Cc: linux-embedded , linux kernel , Arnd Bergmann , john stultz , Brian Swetland , Kay Sievers , Lennart Poettering Subject: Re: RFC: android logger feedback request Message-ID: <20111222034526.GA14174@suse.de> References: <4EF264C3.6000104@am.sony.com> <20111221231956.GB23859@suse.de> <4EF27B85.9080801@am.sony.com> <20111222005114.GA22541@suse.de> <4EF288B4.1070601@am.sony.com> <20111222014718.GA13085@suse.de> <4EF29217.7040408@am.sony.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4EF29217.7040408@am.sony.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > Secondly, this is not a particularly new or radical interface. It is new > to legacy Linux, but it's been in the Android Linux kernel for some years > now, and it has worked well. Sorry, but you know full well that is not a justification for _any_ chunk of code to be included in the main kernel tree. Staging is fine, but to add a new kernel/user api that looks at first glance, to merely duplicate the existing in-kernel apis needs a very good explaination for why it needs to be included. greg k-h