Re: 2.6.23 alpha unistd.h changes

Sergey Tikhonov
2007-09-18T09:25:25Z

Oliver Falk wrote:
> On 09/17/2007 11:22 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>
>>> At Alphacore we used to patch the kernel headers for a while now; We
>>> added syscalls __NR_openat (447) until __NR_tee (466).
>>>
>> Why did your numbers differ from the numbers that were used in the
>> upstream kernel?
>>
>
> Afaik, our patch was done a while ago and nobody every submitted it
> upstream - don't know why...
>
Yes, it was done by me and I had no info how to push the updates to
upstream, sorry. (by that time,
there were no latest "distribution" available with those changes).
> At AC, we follow RH/Fedora packages and there we had glibc-kernheaders -
> where our patch originates. When the glibc/kernel packages changed and
> glibc-kernheaders died, I patched the syscalls into kernel headers; Not
> thinking that I better submit it upstream. :-(
>
Yea, now there is more interest and it is better to do it right. :)

Regards,

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