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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/3] Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
    On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 12:38:34 -0700
    Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:

    > >From my perspective, this is where we're at:
    >
    > This patch seems to have been met with a lot of responses in the tone
    > of "this is not an appealing solution". Meanwhile, some of the
    > suggested alternative solutions have not worked out, and we are now at
    > a point where there's less interest in exploring alternatives and
    > arguments to merge as-is with only minor adjustments.

    Another consideration to make is difficulty of support. Having a
    tarball compressed headers may not be an appealing solution, but it
    isn't one that would be too much of an issue to support. Having a
    better interface would be difficult to get right, and if you get it
    wrong, you are now stuck with supporting something that may become a
    big pain to do so in the future.

    > I'd be a *lot* less hesitant if this went into debugfs or another
    > location than /proc, which is one of the most regression-sensitive
    > interfaces we have in the kernel.
    >

    I agree with this assessment. We shouldn't use config.gz as precedence
    for this solution. config.gz should have been in debugfs to begin with,
    but I don't believe debugfs was around when config.gz was introduced.
    (Don't have time to look into the history of the two).

    -- Steve

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