On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:29:12 -0700 Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

 Even if you do this: It will significantly slow us 
down always having to come to you and ask you for a tool.

Your claim here is, I believe, that a human user interface should be
implemented in the kernel because the cost (to you) (short-term) of doing
that is lower that the cost of implementing a simpler kernel interface and
a bit of userspace human presentation code.  Even though the long-term
cost to the kernel maintainers is higher, and the resulting output is
harder for programs to parse.

oh, hang on.  We've already implemented that bitmap_scnlistprintf() monstrosity
and we're presumably using it in sysfs, so tools already need to know how
to parse it all.

Sigh, so it's too late to fix it.

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