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To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove compat vdso support
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On 03/10/2014 05:12 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
> compatibility with a small range of never-released glibc versions.
> 
> This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
> option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>

Can we verify this works correctly on the affected distributions?

	-hpa