linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel

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Message-ID: <2205470b-1efc-b357-8b2e-67392cf8bb2e@zytor.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 16:32:20 -0800
From:   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:     Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, ast@...nel.org,
        atish patra <atishp04@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@...rsys.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Manoj Rao <linux@...ojrajarao.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        yhs@...com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the
 kernel

On 3/6/19 3:37 PM, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> 
> I just don't get the opposition to Joel's work. The rest of the thread
> already goes into detail about the problems with pure-filesystem
> solutions, and you and others are just totally ignoring those
> well-thought-out rationales for the module approach and doing
> inflooping on "lol just use a tarball". That's not productive.
> 

You might think they are well thought out, but at least from what I can
tell they seem completely spurious.

	-hpa