linux-kernel - Re: where to maintain userspace daemon for line discipline

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:54:27 +0100
From:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: where to maintain userspace daemon for line discipline

H. Peter Anvin schrieb:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there an appropriate place in or near the kernel tree for
>>> stuff like that?
>> 
>> Nope.  The requirement arises regularly.
>> 
>> util-linux would seem to be a suitable place, but apparently there
>> are, umm, isues surrounding that.
> 
> util-linux-ng is already going, so it's a good place.

I have asked on the util-linux-ng mailing list but received
a flat refusal by Karel:

>  I don't think that util-linux-ng is there for this purpose. It's not
>  place for HW specific tools. Sorry.

Back to square one.

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Tilman Schmidt                    E-Mail: tilman@...p.cc
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