On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:51:52AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > - formatting > > > > Ick, we really want to format things from userspace here? > > Depends what you are trying to do. > > Put an embedded hat on > > Do you want to be able to flip between a real debug interface and a > logging device on the same software set without risking changing behaviour I don't understand this point. > Do you want to load a 70K daemon and an initrd or burn about 1.5K on a > kernel interface ? I'd rather burn 0K on the one we have today :) Seriously, look at how Fedora 14 handles this, why can't you do the same for embedded systems all from userspace, no additional code needed anywhere. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html