Re: [PATCH] klibc update

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 10:45:40 EST


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:52:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Too big to post,
> >
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.5-rc1-klibc1.patch.bz2
> > or
> > bk://kernel.bkbits.net/jgarzik/klibc-2.5
> >
> > IIRC, this is: my update of Bryan O'Sullivan's update of Greg KH's
> > update of my merge of hpa's and viro's hacking :)
> >
> > WRT overall klibc merge: when it can do md RAID autorun, it's
> > mergeable. And didn't somebody write a tiny mdctl program...
>
> It's so long since klibc was discussed (ie: more than five minutes ago)
> that I forget the reasons why it should be delivered via the kernel tree.
>
> Remind me please?

We need a way to build the userspace programs that get put into
initramfs that will be needed to boot the kernel.

That help?

thanks,

greg k-h
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