Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756209AbYHGUng (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:43:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753288AbYHGUn2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:43:28 -0400 Received: from iabervon.org ([66.92.72.58]:37342 "EHLO iabervon.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753069AbYHGUn1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:43:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Barkalow To: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com cc: Chris Friesen , Nick Piggin , Geert Uytterhoeven , Stefan Richter , Josh Boyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger In-Reply-To: <2364.69.2.248.210.1217954354.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> Message-ID: References: <17494.166.70.238.46.1217784156.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <33030.166.70.238.45.1217948565.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <200808060133.10457.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <44919.166.70.238.45.1217949560.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> <48987A24.3060000@nortel.com> <2364.69.2.248.210.1217954354.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LNX 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1026 Lines: 21 On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote: > Read it already. Quite a few large companies are using it at present and > have been since 2000, BTW. The criterion for kernel inclusion isn't really whether it works, however. It's whether other people would be able to understand it well enough to support it if you disappear (or if somebody else has changes that require changes to it). If it works well but isn't nice code, nobody really benefits from having it in the kernel distribution rather than external (like it's been for the past 8 years). If it is nice code (somewhat regardless of whether it happens to work right now), people can work on it and keep it in sync with the kernel as they change things. -Daniel *This .sig left intentionally blank* -- 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/