Re: 2.6.23 alpha unistd.h changes

Adrian Bunk
2007-09-17T21:23:08Z

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Oliver!

> 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?

The Alpha maintainers (Cc's added) might now better what happened here.

> However, since 2.6.23 these syscall where added upstream, but with
> different syscall numbers; What happens is the following:
>...

These syscalls were added in 2.6.22, not 2.6.23, and are therefore in
the officially released kernel since more than two months.

Changing a userspace ABI that has already been part of an officially
released kernel because someone patched other syscall numbers into his
private kernel doesn't sound like a good solution.

> Best,
> Oliver

cu
Adrian

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