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Message-Id: <200608281900.10191.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:00:09 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.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


> 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).

Sorry, but that's just utterly wrong. It has always worked. The kernel ABI
is stable on this level.

-Andi
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