From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751153AbWGKRrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:47:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbWGKRrU (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:47:20 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:63401 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751153AbWGKRrT (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:47:19 -0400 Message-ID: <44B3E40E.2090306@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:46:54 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering 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? 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> <20060711173030.GA16693@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20060711173030.GA16693@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Olaf Hering wrote: > 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? It's a deployment problem, arguably especially for people who cross-compile. You have two major pieces of code (kernel and klibc) which have to be changed at the same time, with different maintainers and reviewers. -hpa