On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:46:56PM +0800, SDiZ wrote: > a simple question. > > Are libata and klibc user-space libraries? No, and yes. > The 'lib'-prefix of libata seems to suggest this is userspace library, > but I have seen some kernel patch for it. No, libata is kernel code. > The 'k'-prefix of klibc seems to suggest this is a kernelspace thing.. > But... a libc for kernel? isn't that bloat? No, klibc is userspace code. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
