Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757953AbYHGVYk (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:24:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753565AbYHGVXb (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:23:31 -0400 Received: from 166-70-238-42.ip.xmission.com ([166.70.238.42]:43884 "EHLO ns1.wolfmountaingroup.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757446AbYHGVX3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:23:29 -0400 Message-ID: <2832.69.2.248.210.1218142926.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> In-Reply-To: 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> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:02:06 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com To: "Daniel Barkalow" Cc: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, "Chris Friesen" , "Nick Piggin" , "Geert Uytterhoeven" , "Stefan Richter" , "Josh Boyer" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 28 > 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* > It both works and is nice code. But I may not be impartial. Jeff -- 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/