From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751074AbWGKRac (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:30:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751138AbWGKRac (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:30:32 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:5276 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751074AbWGKRab (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:30:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:30:30 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Jeff Garzik , Michael Tokarev , Roman Zippel , torvalds@osdl.org, klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? Message-ID: <20060711173030.GA16693@suse.de> References: <20060711044834.GA11694@suse.de> <44B37D9D.8000505@tls.msk.ru> <20060711112746.GA14059@suse.de> <44B3D0A0.7030409@zytor.com> <20060711164040.GA16327@suse.de> <44B3DA77.50103@garzik.org> <20060711171624.GA16554@suse.de> <44B3DEA0.3010106@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B3DEA0.3010106@zytor.com> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > "Old klibc" still exists and is the same code out of the same source tree. I meant more the "easy to build" part. > >>* Makes it easier to move stuff between kernel and userspace. > > > >What do you have in mind here? > >Once prepare_namespace is gone, there is no userspace code left. > > Things that have been bandied about, for example: > > - suspend/resume > - partition discovery > > I'm sure there is more. Do you plan to share source files betweek kernel and kinit? Or how is it harder for external kinit to handle that?