From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751159AbWGKSB3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:01:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751165AbWGKSB3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:01:29 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57036 "EHLO mx2.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751159AbWGKSB2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:01:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:01:26 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: "H. Peter Anvin" 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? Message-ID: <20060711180126.GB16869@suse.de> 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> <44B3E40E.2090306@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44B3E40E.2090306@zytor.com> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes (und GroupWise) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 11, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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. Why is that a problem? You cant rip code from the kernel before the main kinit has support for that removed feature. Thats obvious. I dont use suspend, so I dont know how the existing in-kernel code has to look in kinit. But for the partition discovery (the ROOT_DEV users) its likely less than 100 lines of code. And after all, root= exists. Probably not a big loss if that code just disappears. I dont get your point.