linux-kernel - Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

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Date:	Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:22:29 +0200
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ken Chen <kenchen@...gle.com>, Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] rfc: introduce /dev/hugetlb

> 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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