Subject: Re: [PATCH] klibc update
From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 11:53, Andrew Morton wrote:

> It would be rather handy if someone could maintain the definitive tree for
> this work for a while, until we linusify it.

I'll spend a bit of time in the next few days bringing it up to date
w.r.t the current kernel and klibc trees.

> I don't have a feeling for its stability/readiness/desirability/anthingelse
> at this stage.  How mergeable is it?

Not very.  klibc itself works OK, and the in-tree tools that use it work
OK, but they get very few "pick ourselves up off the ground and do a
complete boot" test cycles.

It's definitely 2.7 material.

	<b

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