linux-kernel - Re: RFC: android logger feedback request

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Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:45:26 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Tim Bird <tim.bird@...sony.com>
Cc:	linux-embedded <linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	john stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Lennart Poettering <lennart@...ttering.net>
Subject: Re: RFC: android logger feedback request

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 06:12:39PM -0800, Tim Bird wrote:
> Secondly, this is not a particularly new or radical interface. It is new
> to legacy Linux, but it's been in the Android Linux kernel for some years
> now, and it has worked well.

Sorry, but you know full well that is not a justification for _any_
chunk of code to be included in the main kernel tree.  Staging is fine,
but to add a new kernel/user api that looks at first glance, to merely
duplicate the existing in-kernel apis needs a very good explaination for
why it needs to be included.

greg k-h
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