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Message-ID: <20060828154634.GA3450@stusta.de>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:46:35 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	jdike@...toit.com, B.Steinbrink@....de, arjan@...radead.org,
	chase.venters@...entec.com, akpm@...l.org,
	rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:42:21PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 16:05, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> > The patch below should address both these issues, as long as the libc
> > has a working implementation of syscall(2).
> 
> I would prefer the _syscall() macros to stay independent of the 
> actual glibc version. Or what do you do otherwise on a system
> with old glibc? Upgrading glibc is normally a major PITA.

This would only be required if you'd upgrade the userspace kernel 
headers on this system to a version not matching the ones glibc was 
built against - and this has never been considered a good idea
(it should work in theory, but not with our current header mess).

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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