From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753469AbXCXG5c (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:57:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753472AbXCXG5c (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:57:32 -0400 Received: from pasmtpb.tele.dk ([80.160.77.98]:37439 "EHLO pasmtpB.tele.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753469AbXCXG5b (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:57:31 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:57:52 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Andrew Morton Cc: Nish Aravamudan , Ken Chen , Adam Litke , Arjan van de Ven , William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb Message-ID: <20070324065752.GA13810@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070323205810.3860886d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <29495f1d0703232232o3e436c62lddccc82c4dd17b51@mail.gmail.com> <20070323221225.bdadae16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070323221225.bdadae16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > But for non-programming reasons, we're just not there yet: people want to > program direct to the kernel interfaces simply because of the > distribution/coordination problems with libraries. It would be nice to fix > that problem. What is then needed to get a small subset of user-space in the kernel-development cycle? Maybe a topic worth to take up at LKS... The build system is anyway ready but that the smallest issue of all :-( Sam