Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Jun 2006 10:44:56 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: klibc (was: 2.6.18 -mm merge plans) |
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Hi!
> > > The original idea was due Al Viro; obviously, the > > > implementation is mostly mine. > > > > > > It is of course my hope that this will be used for more > > > than just plain initialization code, but that in itself > > > is a significant step, and one has to start somewhere. > > > > It allows me to unify swsusp & uswsusp into one in future, for > > example, reducing code duplication. > > [cough] How distant is the future you're referring to?
Year or two, I believe. Actually it is not as much as "unify swsusp & uswsusp" as "drop kernel/power/swap.c" and possibly put parts of uswsusp into initial userland so that user do not notice it was dropped from kernel. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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