Re: [GIT PULL] parisc fixes for kernel v4.19

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-10-02T21:16:50Z

On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 11:02:13PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> please pull a last set of fixes for the parisc architecture for kernel 4.19 from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git parisc-4.19-3
>
> The major change is for parisc64 to use a 64-bit suseconds_t type to
> match what glibc expects for 64-bit userspace. It's an ABI change, but
> since we don't have a 64-bit userspace on parisc yet, it won't introduce
> a breakage.

Isn't it a bit "late" in the release cycle for such a change? Why not
do this on the -rc1 release?

> Other than that we simply drop unused code and outdated gcc version
> checks.

Why are those needed now?

thanks,

greg k-h