Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933007Ab0HDPFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:05:18 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51696 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932843Ab0HDPFR (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:05:17 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Simon Horman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Michael Neuling Subject: Re: [rfc] Merge kexec-tools into the kernel tree References: <20100804070647.GB24064@verge.net.au> Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:05:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:34:29 -0700") Message-ID: <87bp9ie7vf.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) 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: 779 Lines: 20 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > I'm afraid that someone has a good answer for why their lives would be > simpler if /sbin/kexec was in the kernel tree and I will be absolutely > horrified and about someones stupidity when I hear that answer. Same here. In fact I guess it would be counter productive: it would discourage a stable API between the kernel and the user tool. We're seeing this problem with other user tools which are in the kernel tree. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/