From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753346AbaBBVrZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:47:25 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50657 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752513AbaBBVrX (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Feb 2014 16:47:23 -0500 Message-ID: <52EEBC97.50509@zytor.com> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 13:45:59 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stefani@seibold.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, aarcange@redhat.com, john.stultz@linaro.org, luto@amacapital.net, xemul@parallels.com, gorcunov@openvz.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com CC: Martin.Runge@rohde-schwarz.com, Andreas.Brief@rohde-schwarz.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 7/8] Add 32 bit VDSO time support for 32 bit kernel References: <1391377293-9458-1-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> <1391377293-9458-8-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> In-Reply-To: <1391377293-9458-8-git-send-email-stefani@seibold.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/02/2014 01:41 PM, stefani@seibold.net wrote: > @@ -19,11 +22,14 @@ ENTRY(__kernel_vsyscall); > */ > VERSION > { > - LINUX_2.5 { > + LINUX_2.6 { > global: Why are you changing the version number? This will, at least in theory, break libcs from a certain time period. The version number should only be changed when there is an ABI-level incompatible change. -hpa