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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dengke Du <dengke.du@windriver.com>
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On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 04:30 -0500, Dengke Du wrote:
> drop the compatible option --with-abi-version=5

This says what the patch does, but not why.

Why should we do this? Does any of our software depend on the v5 ABI?
How did you test this?

Cheers,

Richard