From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932097AbWGKTPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932098AbWGKTPx (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:15:53 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:25007 "EHLO mx1.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932097AbWGKTPw (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:15:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:15:48 +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: <20060711191548.GA17585@suse.de> References: <20060711164040.GA16327@suse.de> <44B3DA77.50103@garzik.org> <20060711171624.GA16554@suse.de> <44B3DEA0.3010106@zytor.com> <20060711173030.GA16693@suse.de> <44B3E40E.2090306@zytor.com> <20060711180126.GB16869@suse.de> <44B3E814.3060004@zytor.com> <20060711181055.GC16869@suse.de> <44B3EB28.1050007@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B3EB28.1050007@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: > Olaf Hering wrote: > >Now I'm confused. > >Is the kernel partition code supposed to go at some point? > >Some people suggested that, but Linus was not convinced. > > It's a proposal, and I personally think it makes sense. If done, it is > obviously very important that it doesn't change the overall operation of > the system. I think you can have that today, parted uses BLKPG to add and remoe things. No idea what the benefit would be, but thats not relavant for kinit or no kinit.