From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752043AbXCYKXG (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:23:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751104AbXCYKXG (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:23:06 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:54415 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752064AbXCYKXF (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Mar 2007 06:23:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ken Chen , Adam Litke , William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070323205810.3860886d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070323205810.3860886d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:22:29 +0200 Message-Id: <1174818149.1158.301.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > But libraries are hard, for a number of distributional reasons. I don't see why this is the case to be honest. You can ask distros to ship your library, and if it's a sensible one, they will. And if you can't wait, you can always bundle the library with your application, it's really not a big deal to do that properly. That's not a reason to make it a harder problem by tying a library to the kernel source... in fact I know enterprise distros are more likely to uprev a library than to uprev a kernel.... tying them together you get the worst of both worlds.... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org