Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759587AbXIRPpf (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756105AbXIRPp2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:28 -0400 Received: from pils.linux-kernel.at ([213.129.242.82]:5605 "EHLO mail.linux-kernel.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754437AbXIRPp1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:45:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46EFF244.5070202@linux-kernel.at> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:44:04 +0200 From: Oliver Falk Organization: Linux kernel Austria User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070615 Fedora/2.0.0.4-1.fc7 Thunderbird/2.0.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axp-list@redhat.com, Jay Estabrook , ac-admin@lists.anotherbloody.com Subject: Re: 2.6.23 alpha unistd.h changes References: <46EEE483.4020209@linux-kernel.at> <20070917214107.GB27980@stusta.de> <46EF90A3.2050109@linux-kernel.at> <20070918140738.GD27980@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070918140738.GD27980@stusta.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-lkernAT-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-lkernAT-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-lkernAT-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-MailScanner-From: oliver@linux-kernel.at Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 39 On 09/18/2007 04:07 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:47:31AM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: >> On 09/17/2007 11:41 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: >>>> Hi! >>> Hi Oliver! >>> >>>> ... >>>> As these additions are quite new to upstream kernel, but at Alphacore we >>>> have patched it since a while now (I don't know about other Alpha ports; >>>> Debian folks may speak up now!), I would suggest to use the same >>>> 'ordering' of the syscalls upstream and add the new syscalls that we had >>>> not in place, but are now upstream to the end of our 'old' list. >>>> ... >>> I just checked: >>> >>> It seems Debian didn't patch them into the kernel at all, and since two >>> months Debian unstable ships kernel 2.6.22 with the upstream syscall >>> numbers. >> That's possible a problem. Right. Someone with contacts to Debian here? >> If Debian hasn't rebuilt glibc against the new headers, we could change >> it without problems. >> ... > > According to the Debian auto-builder database [1], the Alpha glibc > package in Debian unstable has been rebuilt 8 times since the 2.6.22 > kernel packages entered Debian unstable. > > And it's not only Debian, at least Gentoo also offers an Alpha port. Well. As I said. I'll step back and let it be as it is. Debian was to fast. :-) -of - 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/