| I have been asked several times whether the devps patch will go into the |
| mainline Linux kernel. The following emails from Alan Cox and Linux Torvalds |
| make it clear that it is not going to happen. This does not mean this patch |
| had no value -- it does. It just means that those that like it get to apply it |
| themselves... |
| |
| -Erik |
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| for andersen@xmission.com; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:04:25 +0100 |
| Subject: Re: kernel ps drivers [Was: vm locking question] |
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| In-Reply-To: <20000412224130.A2748@xmission.com> from "Erik Andersen" at Apr 12, 2000 10:41:30 PM |
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| > On the subject of ps, would you be willing to accept my /dev/ps |
| > patch into the kernel? If no, any suggestions on what should |
| > be done differently (if anything) to make it worthy of inclusion? |
| |
| For 2.2.x no, for 2.3.x ask Linus not me |
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| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:13:53 -0700 (PDT) |
| From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> |
| To: Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> |
| Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> |
| Subject: Re: kernel ps drivers [Was: vm locking question] |
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| On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Erik Andersen wrote: |
| > |
| > For 2.3.x would you be willing to accept my /dev/ps driver into the kernel? |
| > (Assuming I remove the /dev/modules driver (since it was pointed out that there |
| > is a perfectly good syscall providing that interface). If no, is there anything |
| > that could be done differently (if anything) to make it worthy of inclusion? |
| |
| I do dislike /dev/ps mightily. If the problem is that /proc is too large, |
| then the right solution is to just clean up /proc. Which is getting done. |
| And yes, /proc will be larger than /dev/ps, but I still find that |
| preferable to having two incompatible ways to do the same thing. |
| |
| Linus |
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