On May 31,  8:34am, thorpej@shagadelic.org (Jason Thorpe) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/tools/genassym

| I think that's nonsense.  Just because parts of these libraries are  
| tightly-coupled to the kernel doesn't mean that their use of genassym  
| is.  These libraries have assembly code in them that accesses data  
| structures.  How would that be different than, say, a hand-optimized  
| video codec or a cryptographic transform?
| 
| > 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.
| 
| Your use of the term "outweighs" suggests that moving genassym would  
| be somehow harmful or against the interests of non-kernel  
| developers.  "Outnumbers" would be a more appropriate term, I think.
| 
| In any case, I don't think all of the embedded system developers out  
| there are system administrators.  And they configure kernels all the  
| time.

According to hier(7) these (config and genassym) belong to /usr/bin,
so I am all for moving them.

christos