From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drepper@redhat.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, davidel@xmailserver.org,
mtk.manpages@gmail.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:39:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080512.213925.193699728.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48291749.1060400@redhat.com>
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 21:21:29 -0700
> Is MIPS really a problem? The value is 0x80. 128 protocol types should
> be enough. Even if not, there is no reason why the numbers should be
> consecutive. It's easy enough to skip over a bit. I.e., after procotol
> 0x7f the next one would be 0x100.
Indeed, MIPS looks good.
> And PA seems to have gotten O_NONBLOCK wrong. SPARC does it right AFAICS.
I agree.
But that value is compiled into every parisc binary out there,
limiting what we can do about it in the short term.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-13 4:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 21:18 [PATCH 18/18] flag parameters: check magic constants Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13 3:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 3:45 ` David Miller
2008-05-13 3:54 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13 4:01 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 4:02 ` David Miller
2008-05-13 4:21 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13 4:39 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-05-13 5:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 5:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-13 5:19 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13 5:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-14 4:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 5:22 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-23 14:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
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