From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:8210 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751244AbWH3Rpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:45:49 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:45:47 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros Message-ID: <20060830174547.GH18276@stusta.de> References: <200608281003.02757.ak@suse.de> <200608281642.21737.ak@suse.de> <20060828154634.GA3450@stusta.de> <200608281900.10191.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608281900.10191.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: Arnd Bergmann , David Woodhouse , David Miller , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, jdike@addtoit.com, B.Steinbrink@gmx.de, arjan@infradead.org, chase.venters@clientec.com, akpm@osdl.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel > > headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was > > built against - and this has never been considered a good idea > > (it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess). > > Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI > is stable on this level. In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API. Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers... > -Andi cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed