Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:15:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:15:50 -0500 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:8613 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 11 Jan 2003 14:15:49 -0500 Message-ID: <3E206F7A.4060600@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:24:42 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030109 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent References: <200301110645.h0B6jQRu026921@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20030111110717.A24094@infradead.org> <3E2067FE.4060803@redhat.com> <20030111185744.A5009@infradead.org> <3E206B41.2090203@redhat.com> <20030111191347.A5413@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20030111191347.A5413@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 852 Lines: 19 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > If vendors can't resist using the latest and gratest > features they get screwed. You still don't get it. RH hasn't added the support to binaries we ship because we wanted or needed it but instead because Linus requested it. I see no reason to not believe Linus when he says an interface is stable. And that's exactly what he said (or wrote in this case). -- --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- - 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/