From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 93-97-173-237.zone5.bethere.co.uk ([93.97.173.237] helo=tim.rpsys.net) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SAjTD-0002ZG-2U for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:58:31 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2MEnaEW015480; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:49:36 GMT Received: from tim.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tim.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13435-10; Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:49:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.3.10] ([192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by tim.rpsys.net (8.13.6/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q2MEnTsb015474 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:49:30 GMT Message-ID: <1332427771.9740.240.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:49:31 +0000 In-Reply-To: <2207E1AD-E06F-40D6-9FD7-1452805A4CF3@dominion.thruhere.net> References: <2207E1AD-E06F-40D6-9FD7-1452805A4CF3@dominion.thruhere.net> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.2- Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rpsys.net Cc: "Ashfield, Bruce" Subject: Re: Syscall backporting and linux-libc-headers X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:58:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 13:22 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > In my never ending quest to get consolekit/polkit/etc working properly > I've found that CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is really usefull (it's usefull in > other contexts as well, but that's outside the oe-core set of > recipes). It has the following problem: > > config AUDITSYSCALL > bool "Enable system-call auditing support" > depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || > SPARC64 || SUPERH) > > No MIPS or ARM support. There recently was a pull request from Al Viro > to get at least ARM support into mainline, but I'm not sure what > happened to that. Anyway, I backported the ARM patch to 3.0 and 3.2, > but to make it usefull I'd need to patch linux-libc-headers and bump > PR on virtual/libc. > > What's the OE-core position on backporting syscalls to > linux-libc-headers? Why can't we just increase the linux-libc-headers version? Presumably someone running a kernel without the patches won't see any issue, the syscall just won't be present and software will fall back? I think the big concern would be deviating from mainline as its not so much a backport as a divergence at this point (and this is why we can't just upgrade)? CC'ing Bruce since I know he holds opinions on this kind of thing :) Cheers, Richard