[klibc] klibc rejected for 2.6.18

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 17:24 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 00:43 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:38:49PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Well, klibc has -- apparently -- been rejected for 2.6.18.  I guess that 
> > > means now is the time to do additional work.
> > > 
> > > I am hoping that this will be discussed as KS, and that there will be 
> > > some additional direction from that.  Right now I have to admit to being 
> > > rather discouraged, not so much by the rejection itself as by the lack 
> > > of rationale.
> > Keep up the good work!
> > 
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> > As for the userspace part the klcc support should maybe have been
> > promoted a bit more? To show that it is relatively easy to build
> > external programs for link with klibc.
> > 
> 
> Also, I think we need some support from upstream packages that are
> usually included in initramfs.  I have gotten support in for sysfsutils,
> dmraid (ok, haven't lately checked if it still works, as I do not really
> use it any longer).  But I have had no reply from the device-mapper guys
> up to date about the patches I sent (think I sent for 2-3 versions).
> 
> Things that did support it though, like udev and multipath-tools seems
> broken the last time I checked.
> 

Correction, udev at least builds fine with klibc-0.4.9.


-- 
Martin Schlemmer

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