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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] klibc update
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:37:19 -0800
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk, bos@serpentine.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:52:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> >
> > Too big to post,
> > 
> >  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.5-rc1-klibc1.patch.bz2
> >  	or
> >  bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/klibc-2.5
> > 
> >  IIRC, this is:  my update of Bryan O'Sullivan's update of Greg KH's 
> >  update of my merge of hpa's and viro's hacking :)
> > 
> >  WRT overall klibc merge:  when it can do md RAID autorun, it's 
> >  mergeable.  And didn't somebody write a tiny mdctl program...
> 
> It's so long since klibc was discussed (ie: more than five minutes ago)
> that I forget the reasons why it should be delivered via the kernel tree.
> 
> Remind me please?

We need a way to build the userspace programs that get put into
initramfs that will be needed to boot the kernel.

That help?

thanks,

greg k-h