From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751290AbWGKPay (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:30:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751292AbWGKPay (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:30:54 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:28435 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751290AbWGKPax (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:30:53 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:30:52 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Olaf Hering Cc: Theodore Tso , "H. Peter Anvin" , Roman Zippel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, klibc@zytor.com, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? Message-ID: <20060711153052.GW13938@stusta.de> References: <20060711044834.GA11694@suse.de> <20060711134554.GC24029@thunk.org> <20060711151347.GA15625@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060711151347.GA15625@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:13:47PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > In earlier mails you stated that having kinit/klibc in the kernel sources > > > would make it easier to keep up with interface changes. > > > What interface changes did you have in mind, and can you name any relevant > > > interface changes that were made after 2.6.0 which would break an external > > > kinit? > > > > When you load a SCSI driver (the one that bit me was the MPT Fusion > > driver), it no longer waits for SCSI bus probe to finish before > > returning. So the RHEL4 initrd fails to find the root filesystem, and > > bombs out. This change was definitely made after 2.6.0, and is an > > example of the sort of change which wouldn't have happened if kinit > > was under the kernel sources and not supplied by the distro. > > Was RHEL4 designed for 2.6? Yes (it uses 2.6.9). cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed