linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port

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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 09:21:36 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>, Guo Ren <ren_guo@...ky.com>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        c-sky_gcc_upstream@...ky.com, gnu-csky@...tor.com,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        wbx@...ibc-ng.org, Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:19 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:52 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 07:37:20 PDT (-0700), ren_guo@...ky.com wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:30:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:25 PM Guo Ren <ren_guo@...ky.com> wrote:
> My plan was to get that all into 4.20, and then have a conversation about the
> actual syscall table changes in 4.21. If we need it for both csky and rv32,
> we might just change the generic syscall table that way in 4.21 without
> changing all the other ones along with them. I don't want to drag things out
> over too many merge windows though, and my plan was to do all architectures
> together to simplify the version checks in the libc code to only have to check
> for a single version.

What happens with the version checks if it is backported to stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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