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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:22:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174818149.1158.301.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323205810.3860886d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

> But libraries are hard, for a number of distributional reasons.  

I don't see why this is the case to be honest.
You can ask distros to ship your library, and if it's a sensible one,
they will. And if you can't wait, you can always bundle the library with
your application, it's really not a big deal to do that properly.

That's not a reason to make it a harder problem by tying a library to
the kernel source... in fact I know enterprise distros are more likely
to uprev a library than to uprev a kernel.... tying them together you
get the worst of both worlds....

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23  8:44 Ken Chen
2007-03-23 15:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 21:56   ` Ken Chen
2007-03-23 15:03 ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-23 15:09   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 15:15     ` Mel Gorman
2007-03-23 15:30       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 22:04         ` Ken Chen
2007-03-23 21:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-03-24  4:58 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-24  5:32   ` Nish Aravamudan
2007-03-24  6:12     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-24  6:57       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-24  7:41         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-24  7:11       ` Ken Chen
2007-03-24  7:39         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-25 10:22   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]

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