From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750812AbWGCHYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 03:24:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbWGCHYD (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 03:24:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:716 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbWGCHYB (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 03:24:01 -0400 Message-ID: <44A8C5FD.8050201@suse.de> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:23:41 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso , Jeff Bailey , "H. Peter Anvin" , Michael Tokarev , Roman Zippel , torvalds@osdl.org, klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? References: <20060630181131.GA1709@elf.ucw.cz> <44A5AE17.4080106@tls.msk.ru> <44A5B07E.9040007@zytor.com> <1151751417.2553.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060701150506.GA10517@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20060701150506.GA10517@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > particular distro's non-standard "value add". Maybe that means we > need to have hooks so that the distro's can add their non-standard > "value add" without breaking the ability for users to upgrade to newer > kernels. Sure we need that. Not only for distro's "value add", but basically for everything which depends on utilities not shipped with the kernel (rootfs-on-lvm for example, udev & /dev setup, ...). It's probably also very handy for users and hackers to have a standard way to add stuff to the initramfs during normal kernel build, without having to build their own. cheers, Gerd -- Gerd Hoffmann http://www.suse.de/~kraxel/julika-dora.jpeg