From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754208AbaCDQTH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:19:07 -0500 Received: from www84.your-server.de ([213.133.104.84]:32959 "EHLO www84.your-server.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750975AbaCDQTF (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: <1393949916.977.5.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> Subject: Re: Add 32 bit VDSO time function support From: Stefani Seibold To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, john.stultz@linaro.org, luto@amacapital.net, xemul@parallels.com, gorcunov@openvz.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, Martin.Runge@rohde-schwarz.com, Andreas.Brief@rohde-schwarz.com Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:18:36 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1393916528.1032.3.camel@wall-e.seibold.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: stefani@seibold.net Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Montag, den 03.03.2014, 23:20 -0800 schrieb H. Peter Anvin: > Pretty much... contact the glibc maintainers. However, with glibc being a GNU project you will have to sign a copyright transfer. > > On March 3, 2014 11:02:08 PM PST, Stefani Seibold wrote: > >Hi, > > > >i want ask if there is a change to bring the patch back to tip? > > > >As requested the glibc patch is now available at > > > >http://seibold.net/glibc.patch > > > >Any idea how to bring this patch into glibc? Is the process similar to > >the kernel? > > I got responds from the glibc mailing list: > Finally GLIBC current policy is to accept kernel internal > that are *already* implemented in Linux kernel, so the vDSO support do x86 32 bit kernel > should be either published in a kernel release on pushed in a stable kernel tree (usually > vanilla one). So till the 32 bit VDSO time functions are not in the vanilla kernel tree, there is no way to get in the patch into glibc. - Stefani