Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:30:52 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? |
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:13:47PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, Theodore Tso wrote: > > > > In earlier mails you stated that having kinit/klibc in the kernel sources > > > would make it easier to keep up with interface changes. > > > What interface changes did you have in mind, and can you name any relevant > > > interface changes that were made after 2.6.0 which would break an external > > > kinit? > > > > When you load a SCSI driver (the one that bit me was the MPT Fusion > > driver), it no longer waits for SCSI bus probe to finish before > > returning. So the RHEL4 initrd fails to find the root filesystem, and > > bombs out. This change was definitely made after 2.6.0, and is an > > example of the sort of change which wouldn't have happened if kinit > > was under the kernel sources and not supplied by the distro. > > Was RHEL4 designed for 2.6?
Yes (it uses 2.6.9).
cu Adrian
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