Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:55:15 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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        Daniel Mack <daniel@zonque.org>,
        David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>,
        Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@opendz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:20:37PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I don't know too many other kernel features/drivers that have taken this
> > long, or done this "slowly", do you?
> 
> What other features/drivers that you know introduce a major new IPC
> user space interface that will be a core component of the system?

We've been merging these about one every other kernel release for a
while now.  Look at the drivers/misc/mic/ for one such example, there
are many others like this that are dealing with distributed systems and
having the kernel communicate between them through some custom userspace
api.  Usually ioctls :)

We merge a lot of stuff, and unfortunately it's hard to get a view of
everything that happens all the time.  I suggest reading at least the
shortlog summary of every commit if people are curious, I know I do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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