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Re: glibc 2.23 --- Hard freeze starting
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <sid at reserved-bit dot com>
- To: Steven Munroe <munroesj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:50:13 +0530
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.23 --- Hard freeze starting
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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:13:47AM -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> The full context is that the above is not acceptable to the distros.
> They insist on an common and dynamic mechanism to enable/disable.
Distros can backport the tunables patchset to any release since it
does not change the ABI.
> I fear that this group will not find consensus in the absence of some
> forcing issue. Otherwise the discussion (with lack of consensus) and
> associate delays will go on indefinitely.
>
> This has been delayed too long. It is time to end the debate.
The delay was entirely my fault. I was unable to get back on this
task in time to allow enough time for everyone to review and come to a
consensus.
Siddhesh