linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

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Message-ID: <20150415225555.14d01230@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2015 22:55:55 +0100
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
	Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...ndz.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] kdbus for 4.1-rc1

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 19:55:15 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:20:37PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > I don't know too many other kernel features/drivers that have taken this
> > > long, or done this "slowly", do you?
> > 
> > What other features/drivers that you know introduce a major new IPC
> > user space interface that will be a core component of the system?
> 
> We've been merging these about one every other kernel release for a
> while now.  Look at the drivers/misc/mic/ 

For a single specific piece of hardware, not a general API that by your
own admission will effectively be mandatory.

Alan
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