examples/kernel-patches/WillThisGoIntoTheKernel

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Subject: Re: kernel ps drivers [Was: vm locking question]
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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