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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary.
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:06:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070623100600.GA31638@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070623104905.20ae2929@the-village.bc.nu>

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:49:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> The system to create the dynamic modules could certainly be in-tree but to
> argue that code dynamically created should be "in tree" already is a
> bit silly really isn't it ?

I never argued that.  Creating them intree is equivalent to having the
generated modules in tree for all purposes related to interface stability.

The important bit is that we should not even pretend to allow external
users that we keep a tiny part of the interface stable while the major
part isn't.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-23 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  1:55 [patch 00/10] Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.21-mm2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 01/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Add kconfig menus for the marker code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 02/10] Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independent code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  5:10   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10 12:58     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 13:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 19:00       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10 19:46         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 22:14     ` David Smith
2007-06-23  8:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23  9:25         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23  9:32           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23  9:49             ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 10:06               ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-06-23 14:55                 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 04/10] Linux Kernel Markers - PowerPC optimized version Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 05/10] Linux Kernel Markers - i386 " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  9:06   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-10 15:55     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 16:28       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 16:59         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11  4:57           ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-05-11 18:55             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-12  5:29             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-05-11  6:04           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 18:02             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11 21:56               ` Alan Cox
2007-05-13 15:20                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 06/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Non optimized architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  5:13   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 13:11     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 13:40       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 14:25         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 15:33         ` Nicholas Berry
2007-05-10 16:09           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 11:41     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 11:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 12:48         ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 12:52           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-10 13:04             ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 13:16               ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-10 13:43                 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 14:04                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-10 14:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 14:14     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11 15:05     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-10 12:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 15:51   ` Scott Preece
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 08/10] Defines the linker macro EXTRA_RWDATA for the marker data section Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 09/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Use EXTRA_RWDATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 10/10] Port of blktrace to the Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  9:20   ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-10  2:30 ` [patch 00/10] Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.21-mm2 Andrew Morton

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