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? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - 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/
