From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750935AbWFGIpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 04:45:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751130AbWFGIpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 04:45:40 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:65225 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750935AbWFGIpk (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 04:45:40 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:44:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: klibc (was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Message-ID: <20060607084455.GA7399@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <448366FB.1070407@zytor.com> <20060606152041.GA5427@ucw.cz> <200606062256.55472.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200606062256.55472.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > The original idea was due Al Viro; obviously, the > > > implementation is mostly mine. > > > > > > It is of course my hope that this will be used for more > > > than just plain initialization code, but that in itself > > > is a significant step, and one has to start somewhere. > > > > It allows me to unify swsusp & uswsusp into one in future, for > > example, reducing code duplication. > > [cough] How distant is the future you're referring to? Year or two, I believe. Actually it is not as much as "unify swsusp & uswsusp" as "drop kernel/power/swap.c" and possibly put parts of uswsusp into initial userland so that user do not notice it was dropped from kernel. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html