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From:   Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 03:54:53PM +0800, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We generally assume that any upstream kernel ABI cannot be changed, so this
> has to be changed before the code gets merged upstream.
> 
> You can obviously maintain the old and the new ABI in parallel for a while,
> until the libc supports the new ABI, but you can't do that in the patches
> you send for integration.
> 
> This is more important for the list of system calls, but when you change
> the ABI, it should be changed all at once.
Ok, follow the rules. I will modify uclibc-ng and glibc now.