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Subject: [PATCH v2 09/10] x86/Kconfig: document release year of glibc 2.3.3
Date:   Sun, 11 Sep 2022 10:47:10 +0200
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I wonder how many people were checking their glibc version when
considering whether to enable this option.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
v2: shorten prompt.

 arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 31f778b0cd0b..4612c356da4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2278,7 +2278,7 @@ config DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0
 
 config COMPAT_VDSO
 	def_bool n
-	prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
+	prompt "Workaround for glibc 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 (released in year 2003/2004)"
 	depends on COMPAT_32
 	help
 	  Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
-- 
2.25.1