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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:39:05PM -0500, Michael Taylor wrote:
> Here are my suggestions of what needs decided before we go to 2.6:
> 
> 1. What to do about obsolete devfs vs. immature udev, if anything
Stick to devfs for now, i've got a setup that uses only udev, but it
still has quite some quirks.
> 2. Migration tool or wiki page (add /sys and /udev, fstab entries, build
> module-init-tools, make a sane default config for 2.6)
/sys and /udev aren't needed, they're purely optional
> 3. How to maintain the kernel headers in the long run
The current fixed headers are quite good so far, and we don't need to
maintain them ourselves, except for small changes like replacing #error
with #warning
> 4. Possibly wait for glibc 2.3.3 or whatever "official" NPTL libc comes out
> 
> Has no one else had trouble casting gcc2 after NPTL glibc? I haven't used
> NPTL for a while now due to a flaky motherboard, but I remember the errors
> mentioning threads.
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