From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762149AbXEJNBH (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:01:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759715AbXEJNAz (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:00:55 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:60269 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759615AbXEJNAy (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 09:00:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 14:04:52 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Pekka Enberg" Cc: "Christoph Hellwig" , "Mathieu Desnoyers" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Message-ID: <20070510140452.25ae6765@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: <84144f020705100552u3f988e80u29fc412737522259@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070510015555.973107048@polymtl.ca> <20070510020917.172554217@polymtl.ca> <20070510065847.GE8019@infradead.org> <20070510124120.6e8ac5aa@the-village.bc.nu> <20070510114158.GA16741@infradead.org> <20070510134816.5e57e3cb@the-village.bc.nu> <84144f020705100552u3f988e80u29fc412737522259@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:52:26 +0300 "Pekka Enberg" wrote: > On 5/10/07, Alan Cox wrote: > > "blobs of crap" - in whose opinion. Yours. So you don't want the kernel > > to mention things you personally don't approve of. Thats straight forward > > censorship and has no place in free software. > > Out of kernel code comes and goes, so why mention it in-tree? Besides, > what's wrong with the suggested "can be used for tracing or > performance accounting?" Because people want to know what it is really for ? It's quite amazing really at the same time as people are posting crypto keys everywhere in defiance of USSA law, we've got free software people trying to remove references to a piece of out of tree software, and one that is free software. And as I keep saying the tree is full of references to out of tree stuff. The documentation directory alone currently contains over a thousand http URLS as of 2.6.21-rc6-mm1. Alan