examples/kernel-patches/Will_devps_GoIntoTheKernel

I have been asked several times whether the devps patch will go into the
mainline Linux kernel.  The following emails from Alan Cox and Linus 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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> 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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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