On May 30, 10:35pm, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/tools/genassym

| Well, the libc and libpthread developers thought they needed it.  I  
| assume any other developer writing assembly code might find it  
| useful, too.

These are much more attached to the kernel than regular application
developers.

| Historical note: In previous times, only system administrators were  
| expected to configure and build a new kernel.  That's why config(8)  
| is where it is.  I happen to disagree with its location, because I  
| think more than system administrators use it these days.

This is still the case. From where I am sitting the number of non-kernel
developers far outweighs the number of kernel developers. In anycase,
if we move them, we should move them both.

christos