Re: cpint Package

On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:54:13AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote:
> Well, it's not really part of the kernel source, just something that can be
> compiled as a kernel module.  I've copied Neale on this note.  Perhaps he
> has some thoughts on your suggestion.
> 
> In the meantime, there are plenty of packages that Red Hat includes in their
> platforms that are not part of the official kernel source tree.  I would
> hate to see this one excluded for what ever reason.  It really is almost a
> necessity on Linux/390 systems running on z/VM.

I think Neale wants to keep this driver separate from the kernel to better
maintain it. There is some benefit from including drivers/kernel source code
into the upstream kernel as then more people review it, look at it and start
improving it. I haven't looked at it recently, but it still requires to
define a device major in case no devfs is used or otherwise a dynamic
device allocation on the user side.
(If the driver is in the kernel source proper, I'd expect it to have a device
allocated etc)

I think cpint is a nice package and is well accepted by the mainframe
community. Building this as addon package for our kernel should be easy,
especially as we now only have one kernel for the mainframe platform.

greetings,

Florian La Roche


> 
> 
> Mark Post
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian La Roche [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 10:47 AM
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> Subject: Re: cpint Package
> 
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 10:00:47AM -0400, Post, Mark K wrote:
> > Is there any chance the cpint package will be included in the S/390,
> zSeries
> > platforms?  I didn't see it anywhere on the CDs.  It's a very, very, handy
> > tool to have on systems running on z/VM, and it's fully GPLed.
> 
> We currently don't have plans to include it. I'd encourage to include
> this into official kernel sources on kernel.org to have it this way
> also reviewed/checked for proper operation.
> 
> I anyway wonder why this hasn't been done until now already.
> 
> greetings,
> 
> Florian La Roche
> 
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