Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756696Ab1FIXfM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:35:12 -0400 Received: from r00tworld.com ([212.85.137.150]:46307 "EHLO r00tworld.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755347Ab1FIXfJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:35:09 -0400 From: pageexec@freemail.hu To: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:33:37 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to COMPAT_VSYSCALLS Reply-to: pageexec@freemail.hu CC: Linus Torvalds , Andy Lutomirski , x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Arjan van de Ven , Jan Beulich , richard -rw- weinberger , Mikael Pettersson , Andi Kleen , Brian Gerst , Louis Rilling , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Peter Zijlstra Message-ID: <4DF15851.20914.243BA32B@pageexec.freemail.hu> In-reply-to: <20110609064847.GC7734@elte.hu> References: , <4DEEB31B.15655.19E64916@pageexec.freemail.hu>, <20110609064847.GC7734@elte.hu> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.61) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.12 (r00tworld.com [212.85.137.150]); Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:34:18 +0200 (CEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 997 Lines: 24 On 9 Jun 2011 at 8:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * pageexec@freemail.hu wrote: > > > On 7 Jun 2011 at 11:56, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > Fedora was able to disable the fixed-address vdso in its newer 32-bit > > > distro kernels because it *upgraded glibc*. > > > > and what happened to those apps that users statically linked against > > the older glibc? what happened to their chroots that had dynamically > > linked binaries with an older glibc? did you not break those either? > > There's two reasons why a distributor will generally not worry about > that case: so you went from "There was no breakage of binary compatibility." to saying that you didn't care about it. you could have just admitted it from the beginning. -- 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/