On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:47:31AM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > On 09/17/2007 11:41 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:33:07PM +0200, Oliver Falk wrote: > >> Hi! > > > > Hi Oliver! > > > >> ... > >> As these additions are quite new to upstream kernel, but at Alphacore we > >> have patched it since a while now (I don't know about other Alpha ports; > >> Debian folks may speak up now!), I would suggest to use the same > >> 'ordering' of the syscalls upstream and add the new syscalls that we had > >> not in place, but are now upstream to the end of our 'old' list. > >> ... > > > > I just checked: > > > > It seems Debian didn't patch them into the kernel at all, and since two > > months Debian unstable ships kernel 2.6.22 with the upstream syscall > > numbers. > > That's possible a problem. Right. Someone with contacts to Debian here? > If Debian hasn't rebuilt glibc against the new headers, we could change > it without problems. >...
According to the Debian auto-builder database [1], the Alpha glibc package in Debian unstable has been rebuilt 8 times since the 2.6.22 kernel packages entered Debian unstable. And it's not only Debian, at least Gentoo also offers an Alpha port. > Best, > Oliver cu Adrian [1] http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=alpha&pkg=glibc -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/
