linux-kernel - Re: ktap inclusion in drivers/staging/?

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Message-ID: <20131024100415.GB13223@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:04:15 +0100
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ktap inclusion in drivers/staging/?

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:42:37AM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > But I agree, this should not be just dumped into the staging tree until
> > the patches themselves have been posted and reviewed.
> 
> Btw, it's not just the commit history. The actual file layout is
> terminally horrible too. The actual LWN article made it look like ktap
> was just a user-space tool, and I was thinking that it was like
> tools/pert/, just in staging.
> 
> But looking at the tree, it looks like parts of it is a kernel module,
> and parts of it is the user space thing, and it's totally impossible
> to see which is which, it's just all mixed up in the same directory
> structure.
> 
> Maybe I misunderstood, but that was my reaction from a very quick look.

No, you are correct, it is a mix and mess, and will be fixed up.

greg k-h
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