1I have been asked several times whether the devps patch will go into the 2mainline Linux kernel. The following emails from Alan Cox and Linux Torvalds 3make it clear that it is not going to happen. This does not mean this patch 4had no value -- it does. It just means that those that like it get to apply it 5themselves... 6 7 -Erik 8 9 10------------------------------- 11 12From alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Thu Apr 13 08:07:22 2000 13Return-Path: <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 14Delivered-To: andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com 15Received: from localhost (dillweed.dsl.xmission.com [10.0.0.1]) 16 by dillweed.dsl.xmission.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D57A11A4F5 17 for <andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com>; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:07:22 -0600 (MDT) 18Envelope-to: andersen@xmission.com 19Received: from mail.xmission.com 20 by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.3.3) 21 for andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com (single-drop); Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:07:22 -0600 (MDT) 22Received: from [194.168.151.1] (helo=the-village.bc.nu) 23 by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) 24 id 12fhQk-0002OZ-00 25 for andersen@xmission.com; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 05:05:03 -0600 26Received: from alan by the-village.bc.nu with local (Exim 2.12 #1) 27 id 12fhQ9-0002nD-00 28 for andersen@xmission.com; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:04:25 +0100 29Subject: Re: kernel ps drivers [Was: vm locking question] 30To: andersen@xmission.com 31Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:04:23 +0100 (BST) 32In-Reply-To: <20000412224130.A2748@xmission.com> from "Erik Andersen" at Apr 12, 2000 10:41:30 PM 33X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] 34MIME-Version: 1.0 35Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 36Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 37Message-Id: <E12fhQ9-0002nD-00@the-village.bc.nu> 38From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 39Status: RO 40X-Status: A 41Content-Length: 242 42Lines: 6 43 44> On the subject of ps, would you be willing to accept my /dev/ps 45> patch into the kernel? If no, any suggestions on what should 46> be done differently (if anything) to make it worthy of inclusion? 47 48For 2.2.x no, for 2.3.x ask Linus not me 49 50 51From torvalds@transmeta.com Thu Apr 13 09:18:16 2000 52Return-Path: <torvalds@transmeta.com> 53Delivered-To: andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com 54Received: from localhost (dillweed.dsl.xmission.com [10.0.0.1]) 55 by dillweed.dsl.xmission.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3776411A3DF 56 for <andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com>; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:18:16 -0600 (MDT) 57Envelope-to: andersen@xmission.com 58Received: from mail.xmission.com 59 by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.3.3) 60 for andersen@dillweed.dsl.xmission.com (single-drop); Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:18:16 -0600 (MDT) 61Received: from [209.10.217.66] (helo=neon-gw.transmeta.com) 62 by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #3) 63 id 12flK2-0004dd-00 64 for andersen@xmission.com; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:14:22 -0600 65Received: (from root@localhost) 66 by neon-gw.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA18635; 67 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:10:51 -0700 68Received: from mailhost.transmeta.com(10.1.1.15) by neon-gw.transmeta.com via smap (V2.1) 69 id xma018629; Thu, 13 Apr 00 08:10:25 -0700 70Received: from penguin.transmeta.com (root@penguin.transmeta.com [10.1.2.202]) 71 by deepthought.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA12264; 72 Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:13:53 -0700 (PDT) 73Received: from localhost (torvalds@localhost) by penguin.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA02051; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:13:53 -0700 74X-Authentication-Warning: penguin.transmeta.com: torvalds owned process doing -bs 75Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 08:13:53 -0700 (PDT) 76From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> 77To: Erik Andersen <andersen@xmission.com> 78Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> 79Subject: Re: kernel ps drivers [Was: vm locking question] 80In-Reply-To: <20000413083127.A976@xmission.com> 81Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10004130812170.2000-100000@penguin.transmeta.com> 82MIME-Version: 1.0 83Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 84Status: RO 85Content-Length: 659 86Lines: 16 87 88 89 90On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Erik Andersen wrote: 91> 92> For 2.3.x would you be willing to accept my /dev/ps driver into the kernel? 93> (Assuming I remove the /dev/modules driver (since it was pointed out that there 94> is a perfectly good syscall providing that interface). If no, is there anything 95> that could be done differently (if anything) to make it worthy of inclusion? 96 97I do dislike /dev/ps mightily. If the problem is that /proc is too large, 98then the right solution is to just clean up /proc. Which is getting done. 99And yes, /proc will be larger than /dev/ps, but I still find that 100preferable to having two incompatible ways to do the same thing. 101 102 Linus 103 104 105