From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org, maillist@jg555.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ralf@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:08:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152947294.3191.103.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060714.131957.57444250.davem@davemloft.net>
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 13:19 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I totally agree. When I saw that some dists make asm/page.h define
> PAGE_SIZE to "getpagesize()" for userspace, I nearly crapped myself.
>
> That is insane, and encourages the problem to persist instead of
> encouraging the right fix.
Until a week or two ago, we had no mechanism with which to implement the
'right fix'. Any distribution taking the initiative and reducing
visibility of stuff like that would be inundated with complaints that
"it works OK on other distributions".
We can be stricter now that we have some expectation of _consistency_
across distributions.
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-15 7:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-12 0:35 Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 0:25 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 2:18 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 18:55 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 19:28 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-14 19:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-14 20:16 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 20:19 ` David Miller
2006-07-14 20:57 ` Jim Gifford
2006-07-15 4:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-07-16 14:08 ` Nix
2006-07-15 7:19 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-15 7:08 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-07-14 19:57 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-14 20:06 ` Erik Andersen
2006-07-14 20:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-08-26 16:09 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-29 12:25 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-07-15 21:09 Albert Cahalan
2006-07-15 21:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17 5:21 ` Ralf Baechle
2006-07-15 21:44 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-07-15 21:47 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16 6:18 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 6:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-16 8:05 ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-16 8:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2006-07-16 12:34 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-16 12:48 ` Russell King
2006-07-16 18:38 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 18:53 ` Russell King
2006-07-16 19:22 ` Albert Cahalan
2006-07-16 19:41 ` Russell King
2006-07-17 1:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-17 1:23 ` David Miller
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