Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

Greg KH
2005-02-14T22:36:38Z

On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:30:54AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >Because we don't have an easy way yet to build against a copy of klibc
> >on a system? For right now, it's the simplest way to ensure that it
> >works for everyone, once klibc moves into the kernel tree I can remove
> >it from udev and hotplug-ng.
> >
>
> If it is not possible to use klibc together with a non-Linux
> system (e.g. FreeBSD or Mach), then I would suggest to make
> klibc an optional kernel patch and drop it from udev and
> hotplug.

But it is not possible to use udev or hotplug-ng on a non-Linux system,
right?

As far as "optional kernel patch"? What do you mean? People are
working on adding klibc to the main kernel tree, nothing optional about
that.

> >Is it causing problems for you?
> >
>
> Some months ago I had contributed a patch to add an install
> target to the klibc Makefiles. I just wonder why it has been
> ignored.

Don't know, I'm not in charge of klibc development. Why not ask on the
klibc mailing list?

thanks,

greg k-h