Re: Merge strategy for klibc

From: Michael Tokarev
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 07:39:43 EST


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Okay, as of this point, I think klibc is in quite good shape; my
> testing so far is showing that it can be used as a drop-in replacement
> for the kernel root-mounting code.
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> Thus, it's not clear to me what particular approach makes most sense for
> pushing upstream.

Why this needs to be "pushed" upstream in the first place? Isn't it
simpler/easier/whatever to just require klibc to be present on the
build system for kernel? If klibc is "sufficiently" independent of
the kernel (is it? I see no reason it shouldn't), why it should go
with kernel? Just point your CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE to some klibc
directory tree and be done with it, no need to distribute/build
klibc with kernel..

Thanks.

/mjt
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