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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:11:10 +0400
From: Sergey Tikhonov <tsv@solvo.ru>
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       ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, ac-admin@lists.anotherbloody.com,
       Jay Estabrook <jay.estabrook@hp.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23 alpha unistd.h changes
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Oliver Falk wrote:
> On 09/17/2007 11:22 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>     
>>> At Alphacore we used to patch the kernel headers for a while now; We
>>> added syscalls __NR_openat (447) until __NR_tee (466).
>>>       
>> Why did your numbers differ from the numbers that were used in the 
>> upstream kernel?
>>     
>
> Afaik, our patch was done a while ago and nobody every submitted it
> upstream - don't know why...
>   
Yes, it was done by me and I had no info how to push the updates to 
upstream, sorry. (by that time,
there were no latest "distribution" available with those changes).
> At AC, we follow RH/Fedora packages and there we had glibc-kernheaders -
> where our patch originates. When the glibc/kernel packages changed and
> glibc-kernheaders died, I patched the syscalls into kernel headers; Not
> thinking that I better submit it upstream. :-(
>   
Yea, now there is more interest and it is better to do it right. :)

Regards,

-- 
Sergey Tikhonov

Head, R&D department
Solvo Ltd.
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
http://www.solvo.ru
tsv@solvo.ru

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