Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Jul 2006 12:51:31 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [klibc] klibc and what's the next step? |
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On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Does that mean "in kernel space", "in the kernel distribution" or "in memory > completely under the control by the kernel?" That is really what this is > about.
I think it's all about kernel space.
Moving the default parsing to user space would add exactly _zero_ advantage, and would add totally unnecessary complexity (ie now we need to make sure that hotplug does it right - and the hotplug routines suddenly change between the boot phase and the actual install).
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