# Re: \[PATCH v6 0/8\] Additional kmsg devices

- From: Tejun Heo \<tj@kernel.org\>
- Date: 2016-02-27 11:54:19 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2016/02/4696149
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2016/02/4693081/t.md

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Hello,

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 03:47:18PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Could you explain in more detail what did you mean by IPC problems?
> 
> I guess that the idea was to make IPC more effective in general.
> You definitely could not move all functionality that needs IPC
> into the kernel.

1. There are multiple ways to do IPC and I don't think what was
   implemented as the comparison is optimal.

2. If that were optimal, we have an a lot larger general IPC problem
   than logging.  We can't possibly implement custom solution for each
   specific IPC use case in kernel.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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