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Message-ID: <20060830174547.GH18276@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 30 Aug 2006 19:45:47 +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 07:00:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > 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.

In this area, the ABI is much more stable than the API.

Try compiling glibc-2.0.1 with 2.6.17 kernel headers...

> -Andi

cu
Adrian

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