Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:39:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:39:58 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:518 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 13:39:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 10:43:50 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Christoph Hellwig cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Subject: Re: make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent In-Reply-To: <20030111110717.A24094@infradead.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1262 Lines: 30 On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:26PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > > How about moving the AT_SYSINFO macro from asm-i386/elf.h to > > linux/elf.h? Several architectures can benefit from it (certainly > > pa-risc and ia64) and since glibc also defines it in a > > non-platformspecific fashion, there really is no point not doing the > > same in the kernel. I suppose it would be nice if we could renumber > > it from 32 to 18, but that would require updating glibc, which is > > probably too painful. > > I think it should be updated. There is no released glibc or stable kernel > with that number yet. Sounds like an uncommonly bad idea to me, since the range 19-22 is already used at least by PPC. Yeah, 18 itself may be free (although I wonder _why_? Maybe it's some old value that is no longer used by the kernel but old binaries may know about?) but the fact is that there just isn't room in the low numbers, which was why I put it up higher. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/