Re: 2.6.23 alpha unistd.h changes

[Oliver Falk <oliver linux-kernel at>]

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.

If not, we have a problem on AC... Anyone with a glibc that was compiled
against our patched unistd.h (so including the new syscall numbers),
will not be able to upgrade the kernel, but also needs to upgrade glibc
and then *must* reboot :-(

Best,
 Oliver