From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from localhost user: 'ralf' uid#500 fake: STDIN (ralf@eddie.linux-mips.org)) by eddie.linux-mips.org id S1491201Ab0JHP6Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:58:25 +0200 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:58:23 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Manuel Lauss Cc: Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: siginfo difference MIPS and other arches Message-ID: <20101008155823.GB30185@linux-mips.org> References: <20101008155319.GC12107@linux-mips.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 27995 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:55:01PM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > >> current -git build breaks because of upstream commit > >> a337fdac7a5622d1e6547f4b476c14dfe5a2c892, which introduced > >> an unconditional check for siginfo_._sifields._sifault._si_addr_lsb field. > >> > >> Is there a reason why MIPS doesn't use the default siginfo_t structure > >> as other architectures do? > > > > History - the MIPS structure is identical to IRIX. > > Does anyone still run IRIX binaries on current linux? > (and Isn't IRIX dead anyway? :) ) Doesn't matter - you can't change the definition without breaking binary compatibility. Ralf