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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:26:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4576E134.5020109@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061206152542.GS3927@implementation.labri.fr>

Samuel Thibault wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin, le Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:16:39 -0800, a écrit :
>> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>>> Is there any way to fix this?  Glibc people don't seem to want to fix it
>>>> on their part, see
>>>> http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2363
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Ulrich asked you to go to us once your time travel machine was
>>> finished.. is it finished yet ?  ;=)
>>>
>>> this is part of the ABI, so we can't change this in 2006...
>>>
>> If ENOTSUP is currently unused and is only there for completeness, then 
>> it should be fine to add it.
> 
> The functions that should be returning it instead of EOPNOTSUP should be
> fixed too.
> 

The two can't be done at the same time.  In fact, the two probably can't 
be done without a period of quite a few *years* between them.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-06 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-06 13:51 Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 14:25 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-06 14:31   ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:17     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 20:10       ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 21:11         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 22:34           ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-07 13:49     ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-07 13:59       ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-07 14:15         ` Theodore Tso
2006-12-07 14:30           ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-07 15:33             ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-12-06 15:16   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 15:25     ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:26       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-12-06 15:34         ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 15:35           ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-12-06 16:14             ` Samuel Thibault
2006-12-06 16:44               ` H. Peter Anvin

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