Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:45:47 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
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       chase.venters@clientec.com, akpm@osdl.org, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
       rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel
> > headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was
> > built against - and this has never been considered a good idea
> > (it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess).
> 
> Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI
> is stable on this level.

In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API.

Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers...

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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