From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932109AbWFGJnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:43:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932113AbWFGJnh (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:43:37 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:54491 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932109AbWFGJng (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:43:36 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: klibc (was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:44:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060604135011.decdc7c9.akpm@osdl.org> <200606062256.55472.rjw@sisk.pl> <20060607084455.GA7399@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060607084455.GA7399@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606071144.01717.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:44, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > The original idea was due Al Viro; obviously, the > > > > implementation is mostly mine. > > > > > > > > It is of course my hope that this will be used for more > > > > than just plain initialization code, but that in itself > > > > is a significant step, and one has to start somewhere. > > > > > > It allows me to unify swsusp & uswsusp into one in future, for > > > example, reducing code duplication. > > > > [cough] How distant is the future you're referring to? > > Year or two, I believe. Actually it is not as much as "unify swsusp & > uswsusp" as "drop kernel/power/swap.c" and possibly put parts of > uswsusp into initial userland so that user do not notice it was > dropped from kernel. OK Rafael