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Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices

From Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices
Date 2016-02-27 13:00 +0100
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Hello,

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Could you explain in more detail what did you mean by IPC problems?
> 
> I guess that the idea was to make IPC more effective in general.
> You definitely could not move all functionality that needs IPC
> into the kernel.

1. There are multiple ways to do IPC and I don't think what was
   implemented as the comparison is optimal.

2. If that were optimal, we have an a lot larger general IPC problem
   than logging.  We can't possibly implement custom solution for each
   specific IPC use case in kernel.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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[PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-24 13:00 +0100
  [PATCH v6 4/8] kmsg: add additional buffers support to memory class Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-24 13:00 +0100
  [PATCH v6 7/8] kmsg: add ioctl for kmsg* devices operating on buffers Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-24 13:00 +0100
  [PATCH v6 5/8] kmsg: add function for adding and deleting additional  buffers Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-24 13:00 +0100
  [PATCH v6 2/8] printk: add one function for storing log in proper  format Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-24 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-02-25 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices Kazimierz Krosman <k.krosman@samsung.com> - 2016-02-26 14:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-02-26 15:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] Additional kmsg devices Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-02-27 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v6 3/8] kmsg: introduce additional kmsg devices support Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> - 2016-02-26 15:10 +0100

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