linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jun 2016 09:13:29 +0300
From:	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com>
CC:	Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>,
	Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@....com>,
	GNU C Library <libc-alpha@...rceware.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, nd <nd@....com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@....com>, <philb@....org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@...esourcery.com>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/27] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility
 reasons.

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 04:26:01PM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:38 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On 06/23/2016 09:56 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> >>
> >> Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> So the question becomes do we care enough about the incompatibles
> >>> between AARCH32 and AARCH64 to fix this and go just worry about ILP32
> >>> and LP64?
> >>
> >>
> >> Some armv8 chips do not implement all of armv7, so how relevant is
> >> aarch32 on aarch64?
> >
> >
> > I also do not see sufficient justification for this ABI break.
> 
> Yury,
>   Can you patch ILP32 glibc to use 64bit integer for utmp struct?

Yes I can. I will send v2 next week with that patch.

> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florian
> >