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

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC v5 0/8] Additional kmsg devices
Date 2016-02-25 00:10 +0100
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:27:57 -0500 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.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...

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