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From:   Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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On Mai 09 2020, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> glibc depending on kernel version is WRONG. It's bogus. You can't do
> feature detection based on kernel version, it's fundamentally broken.
>
> So I really would prefer to see glibc fixed not to do that stupid
> thing, instead of adding pointless vdso notes to the kernel.

I'm not aware of any discussion or bug report on this issue.  Any
pointer?

Andreas.

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