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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:07:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030111110717.A24094@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200301110645.h0B6jQRu026921@napali.hpl.hp.com>; from davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:26PM -0800

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:26PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> How about moving the AT_SYSINFO macro from asm-i386/elf.h to
> linux/elf.h?  Several architectures can benefit from it (certainly
> pa-risc and ia64) and since glibc also defines it in a
> non-platformspecific fashion, there really is no point not doing the
> same in the kernel.  I suppose it would be nice if we could renumber
> it from 32 to 18, but that would require updating glibc, which is
> probably too painful.

I think it should be updated.  There is no released glibc or stable kernel
with that number yet.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-11 10:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-11  6:45 make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent David Mosberger
2003-01-11 11:07 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-11 18:43   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-11 18:52   ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-01-11 18:57     ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:06       ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-01-11 19:13         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:24           ` Ulrich Drepper
2003-01-11 19:30             ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:29       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-01-11 19:36         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-01-11 19:36         ` David Mosberger
2003-01-12  0:21       ` Alan Cox
2003-01-11 23:47         ` Jeff Garzik

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