Remember a while ago I talked about mtd/ubi-user.h using __packed
without #defining it anywhere due to a kernel developers' overzealous
"cleanup"?  And how this resulted in a build break under the 3.0 kernel?

Guess what ubuntu 11.10 ships!  (Still, with all updates applied!)

Rob

P.S. If you wonder why I despair of busybox's "throw another app on the
fire, it can't hurt anything" approach... doing more than necessary is
bad.  Busybox now has 348 apps.  Is there really a good excuse for
smemcap not being a shell script, same for envdir?  Why do we have
devmem?  envuidgid is probably obsoleted by containers, which busybox
has no support for, but now we have to support this old thing forever.
(Yes forever: we still haven't removed mt.)  AND envuidgid does
something chpst also does,   We have uuencode _and_ base64? We have
killall _and_ killall5? Why add-shell (at all)?  Why isn't dhcprelay a
function of udhcpd?  (They SIMPLIFY UDHCPD already.)  Is wall really a
modern tool? Doesn't "alias" exist for things like hd?  And so on...

I miss "simple".  The current busybox may be many things (trying to be
all things to all people), but it's not simple.
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