Re: klibc (was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans)

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-06-07T09:43:37Z

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:44, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > 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.

OK

Rafael