From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:41:56 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb Message-Id: <20070323234156.72b955e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070324065752.GA13810@uranus.ravnborg.org> References: <20070323205810.3860886d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <29495f1d0703232232o3e436c62lddccc82c4dd17b51@mail.gmail.com> <20070323221225.bdadae16.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070324065752.GA13810@uranus.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Nish Aravamudan , Ken Chen , Adam Litke , Arjan van de Ven , William Lee Irwin III , Christoph Hellwig , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:57:52 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > But for non-programming reasons, we're just not there yet: people want to > > program direct to the kernel interfaces simply because of the > > distribution/coordination problems with libraries. It would be nice to fix > > that problem. > > What is then needed to get a small subset of user-space in the kernel-development cycle? Someone to lead the work, mainly. It would be a large effort, a lot of time and email traffic. > Maybe a topic worth to take up at LKS... Well, perhaps. But unless someone with suitable experience has enough time and energy to spare to make it happen, it won't be happening. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org