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Re: fanotify_mark (was: [PATCH] [SH] ABI baseline update)


Hi!

On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:41:19 +0000, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> 
> > > Sounds like a bug in the SH file (if fixing it you'll need to put the 
> > > function in the SH Versions file at 2.16, of course).  This is listed 
> > > separately in each syscalls.list for a 32-bit architecture.
> > 
> > Our testing systems are in maintenance at the moment, so I can't test it,
> > but this appears to me to be the correct fix -- that is, distribute the
> > Versions entry next to each syscalls.list, and add it anew for SH.
> 
> I don't think it's a good idea to distribute it like this for an issue 
> that is unique to SH - is it necessary to do so to avoid some 
> inappropriate export?  (All future architectures should be using 
> linux-generic and so avoid this issue.)  It's certainly not an appropriate 
> change for during the freeze, when changes requiring associated ports 
> changes are to be avoided so ports are no longer chasing a moving target.

Understood, but I didn't think of a less intrusive way for back-dating
the symbol version of fanotify_mark from 2.13 to 2.16 for SH, which
Andreas Schwab has now shown how to do.


GrÃÃe,
 Thomas

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