From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935845AbWLFP1e (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:27:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S935858AbWLFP1d (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:27:33 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:34285 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935845AbWLFP1c (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 10:27:32 -0500 Message-ID: <4576E134.5020109@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:26:44 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Samuel Thibault , "H. Peter Anvin" , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP References: <20061206135134.GJ3927@implementation.labri.fr> <1165415115.3233.449.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4576DED7.10800@zytor.com> <20061206152542.GS3927@implementation.labri.fr> In-Reply-To: <20061206152542.GS3927@implementation.labri.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Samuel Thibault wrote: > H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a écrit : >> Arjan van de Ven wrote: >>>> Is there any way to fix this? Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it >>>> on their part, see >>>> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363 >>> Hi, >>> >>> Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel machine was >>> finished.. is it finished yet ? ;=) >>> >>> this is part of the ABI, so we can't change this in 2006... >>> >> If ENOTSUP is currently unused and is only there for completeness, then >> it should be fine to add it. > > The functions that should be returning it instead of EOPNOTSUP should be > fixed too. > The two can't be done at the same time. In fact, the two probably can't be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them. -hpa