Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 18:25:26 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote: > > And do you guys actually use a recent glibc snapshot? Do you ever expect > to?
I believe this effort is more targetted at teeny little embedded gadgets - devices which are very remote from workstations, desktops and servers.
Presumably the people who are programming such gadgets will know if they need futexes or not.
We've never clearly addressed the issue of just how far the mainstream kernel should scale down, and how pluggable the various kernel components should be.
Retrofitting pluggability is hard (CONFIG_BLOCK_LAYER) but at the very least, we should make this effort for newly-added components.
Assuming, of course, that we _do_ want to make the mainstream kernel scale that far down. It could be argued that this is a role for vendors or other specialised parties.
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