Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761193AbYCGIAd (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 03:00:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756718AbYCGIAL (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 03:00:11 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45411 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755899AbYCGIAJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 03:00:09 -0500 From: Andreas Jaeger To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Robert Dewar , "H.J. Lu" , Jakub Jelinek , NightStrike , Olivier Galibert , Chris Lattner , Michael Matz , Richard Guenther , Joe Buck , Jan Hubicka , Aurelien Jarno , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag References: <738B72DB-A1D6-43F8-813A-E49688D05771@apple.com> <578FCA7D-D7A6-44F6-9310-4A97C13CDCBE@apple.com> <47CF44E7.3020106@zytor.com> <20080306135139.GA5236@dspnet.fr.eu.org> <6dc9ffc80803060743h502fc96bj6117ef87a8555c3a@mail.gmail.com> <47D012B4.3020104@zytor.com> <20080306162353.GF24887@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <6dc9ffc80803060858i7d4e8b56o99ff8ad301a5cc1a@mail.gmail.com> <47D024AA.9010300@zytor.com> <6dc9ffc80803060914x187049a2hb24ef501baf55601@mail.gmail.com> <47D0275B.4020105@adacore.com> <47D027B5.5030503@zytor.com> OpenPGP: id=C272A126; url=http://www.suse.de/~aj/keys.txt Mail-Followup-To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Robert Dewar , "H.J. Lu" , Jakub Jelinek , NightStrike , Olivier Galibert , Chris Lattner , Michael Matz , Richard Guenther , Joe Buck , Jan Hubicka , Aurelien Jarno , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:00:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <47D027B5.5030503@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:19:49 -0800") Message-ID: <87bq5rge0r.fsf@suse.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1883 Lines: 53 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "H. Peter Anvin" writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: >> H.J. Lu wrote: >> >>> So that is the bug in the Linux kernel. Since fixing kernel is much >>> easier >>> than providing a workaround in compilers, I think kernel should be fixed >>> and no need for icc/gcc fix. >> >> Fixing a bug in the Linux kernel is not "much easier". You are taking >> a purely engineering viewpoint, but life is not like that. There are >> lots of copies of Linux kernels around and in use. The issue is not >> fixing the kernel per se, it is propagating that change to all >> Linux kernels in use -- THAT'S another matter entirely, and is >> far far more difficult than making sure that a kernel fix is >> qualified and widely proopagated. >> > > Not really, it's just a matter of time. Typical distro cycles are on > the order of 3 years. But distros release fixes regularly for their kernels - and adding a fix for this issue with their next security update is something that is possible for distros (at least for openSUSE ;-), Andreas =2D-=20 Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform / openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint =3D 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0PYEOJpWPMJyoSYRAkSvAKCAr0mOBfjKffRq9dVD0LIocNBRCACfZ+lQ 7ywr/0STXzwzmQouByJZM10= =mffS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- -- 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/