Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step?

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sat Jul 01 2006 - 18:21:15 EST


Theodore Tso wrote:

Personally, I would be happier with keeping things like suspend2 in
the kernel, since I don't think the hellish compatibility problems
with non-reviewed kernel functionality that has been ejected into
userspace is really worth it --- but if we *are* going to go down the
route pushing everything into userspace, it is going to be critical
that distro's buy into using a kernel initialization system which is
shipped with the kernel, and can be updated without being tied a
particular distro's non-standard "value add". Maybe that means we
need to have hooks so that the distro's can add their non-standard
"value add" without breaking the ability for users to upgrade to newer
kernels.

That would be my feeling. The ability to overlay initramfs is essential for that.

> But either way, we're going to have to decide which way
we're going to go, and if we're going to go down the blind
in-userspace-good-in-kernel-bad approach, the distro's are going to
have to cooperate or it's going to be a mess.

Of course.

-hpa

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