Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755750AbXFWJcW (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:32:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753495AbXFWJcP (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:32:15 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51027 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753161AbXFWJcO (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:32:14 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:32:09 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Alan Cox Cc: Christoph Hellwig , David Smith , Mathieu Desnoyers , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary. Message-ID: <20070623093209.GB30849@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , David Smith , Mathieu Desnoyers , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070510015555.973107048@polymtl.ca> <20070510020915.900170085@polymtl.ca> <20070510065137.GA7943@infradead.org> <46439941.4010909@redhat.com> <20070623080953.GA29241@infradead.org> <20070623102515.3a1fc583@the-village.bc.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070623102515.3a1fc583@the-village.bc.nu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 751 Lines: 16 On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:25:15AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Getting the marker exports right is what is needed to avoid having an > unreliable parser and ending up with a reliable one. > > Or would you rather someone loaded a JVM into kernel space so it was > "shipped with the kernel" You're totall missing the point here. We're talking about kernel internal interface, and the point for them has always been not to care about out of tree users. There is no relation to anything involving a JVM here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/