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Re: [PATCH] Fix prototype for eventfd
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, allan at archlinux dot org, Rasmus Villemoes <rv at rasmusvillemoes dot dk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 14:07:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix prototype for eventfd
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On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 09:41:51AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sun 03 Aug 2014 14:19:08 Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> writes:
> > > On Wed 30 Apr 2014 12:30:32 Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > >> Both the man-page and the actual kernel source says that the first
> > >> argument to eventfd is unsigned int, not simply int.
> > >
> > > i guess this is still waiting to be merged ?
> >
> > It seems that way, yes.
>
> let's check with Allan if we can merge before 2.20. otherwise it'll have to
> wait for 2.21.
>
> i think it's fine (and preferred) we merge for 2.20 since it's a user-visible
> API fix. and it's low risk.
> -mike
I pushed this synced with sysdeps files movement.