On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:18:51 +0200 Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew, > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:32:29 +0200 Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Andrew, > >> > >> The timerfd() syscall went into 2.6.22. While writing the man page for > >> this syscall I've found some notable limitations of the interface, and I am > >> wondering whether you and Linus would consider having this interface fixed > >> for 2.6.23. > >> > >> On the one hand, these fixes would be an ABI change, which is of course > >> bad. (However, as noted below, you have already accepted one of the ABI > >> changes that I suggested into -mm, after Davide submitted a patch.) > >> > >> On the other hand, the interface has not yet made its way into a glibc > >> release, and the change will not break applications. (The 2.6.22 version > >> of the interface would just be "broken".) > > > > I think if the need is sufficient we can do this: fix it in 2.6.23 and in > > 2.6.22.x. That means that there will be a few broken-on-new-glibc kernels > > out in the wild, but very few I suspect. > > So I'm still not quite clear. Can I take it from your statement above that > the proposed ABI changes would be admissible, as long as Davide is okay > with them? > yup, I'll send that diff into Linus and -stable and see what happens. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
