Re: klibc - another libc?

Paul Dickson
2006-06-13T02:31:26Z

On Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:15:59 +0200 (CEST), Roman Zippel wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > > If you wouldn't remove all old init code at once it would still be
> > > possible to build a kernel this way. Why are you making it mandatory? Why
> > > don't you leave it optional for a while and only gradually remove the old
> > > code? This way distributions/users can experiment with it regarding their
> > > current initrd/boot setups.
> >
> > Linus vetoed that option years ago.
>
> Name dropping is of course always impressive - scares little kids and all.
> Could you please provide more info, what exactly he vetoed?

His rule was no code was to be added to the kernel code unless it already
had a user. So there would be no adding code hoping a user would appear.

If I'm wrong, I'll likely be corrected... :-)

-Paul