From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:45:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:45:08 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:25095 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 00:44:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3C9EB8F6.247C7C3B@zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:43:18 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Theodore Tso CC: "H . J . Lu" , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux kernel , GNU C Library Subject: Re: Does e2fsprogs-1.26 work on mips? In-Reply-To: <20020323140728.A4306@lucon.org> <3C9D1C1D.E30B9B4B@zip.com.au> <20020323221627.A10953@lucon.org> <3C9D7A42.B106C62D@zip.com.au> <20020324012819.A13155@lucon.org> <20020325003159.A2340@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso wrote: > > And just to be clear ---- although in the past I've been really > annoyed when glibc has made what I've considered to be arbitrary > changes which have screwed ABI, compile-time, or link-time > compatibility, and have spoken out against it --- in this particular > case, I consider the fault to be purely the fault of the kernel > developers, so there's no need having the glibc folks get all > defensive.... So... Does the kernel need fixing? If so, what would you recommend? -