linux-kernel - Re: [rfc] Merge kexec-tools into the kernel tree

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Date:	Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:26:58 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] Merge kexec-tools into the kernel tree

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:19:46AM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
>> If we talk about analyzing and filtering crash dumps, I can totally
>> see an argument for putting something under tools/ if the authors of
>> mkdumpfile and crash are interested.  Those tools fundamentally really
>> do follow kernel internals.
>
>I agree that the argument is stronger for tools/ inclusion if internal
>APIs need to be followed.  Of course perf doesn't need internals APIs
>and it's in tools/.
>

Well, I don't remember clearly why perf was proposed to be included into
kernel tree by Ingo, I think it was internal API/ABI issue as well.
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