Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:01:14 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release
Message-ID: <20050211210114.GA21314@suse.de>
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:06:40PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> >I'd like to announce, yet-another-hotplug based userspace project:
> >linux-ng.  This collection of code replaces the existing linux-hotplug
> >package with very tiny, compiled executable programs, instead of the
> >existing bash scripts.
> >
> 
> cpio is running to setup a test partition.
> 
> But one question: This is yet another package with its
> own private copy of klibc. Whats the reason behind this
> non-modular approach?

Because we don't have an easy way yet to build against a copy of klibc
on a system?  For right now, it's the simplest way to ensure that it
works for everyone, once klibc moves into the kernel tree I can remove
it from udev and hotplug-ng.

Is it causing problems for you?

thanks,

greg k-h
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