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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?
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 On Tue, Jul 11, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> > Does that mean "in kernel space", "in the kernel distribution" or "in memory
> > completely under the control by the kernel?"  That is really what this is
> > about.
> 
> I think it's all about kernel space.
> 
> Moving the default parsing to user space would add exactly _zero_ 
> advantage, and would add totally unnecessary complexity (ie now we need to 
> make sure that hotplug does it right - and the hotplug routines suddenly 
> change between the boot phase and the actual install).

It depends what the benefit for such a change is. I cant come up with a
good guess. Maybe someone should write a paper and present it at OLS.