linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v5 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

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Message-Id: <20160224145944.d19fd3b66e183702b5ee13b1@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 14:59:44 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Paul Osmialowski <p.osmialowsk@...sung.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	Marcin Niesluchowski <m.niesluchow@...sung.com>,
	Karol Lewandowski <k.lewandowsk@...sung.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuahkh@....samsung.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC v5 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:27:57 -0500 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 08:47:35AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > > Andrew?  Are you or anyone else interested in picking up this patchset?
> > 
> > I know I'm repeating myself. But this should be done in userspace.
> 
> Nothing in this posting explains why this is being added.  Kinda
> difficult to say yay or nay.

Yes, I've been rather scratching my head over all of that: what does it
all really do, why does it do it, what problem does it solve, what's
the end-user benefit, etc.

There doesn't appear to be a Documentation update in the patchset. 
Perhaps rectifying that omission with a rather good documentation file
would help people to appreciate it all...