On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 08:27:36 PDT (-0700), Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:54 PM, Yury Norov <yno...@caviumnetworks.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 04:20:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Yury Norov <yno...@caviumnetworks.com> >>> wrote: >>> > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:10:23PM +0100, James Hogan wrote: >>> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:58:41PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >>> > I would also notice riscv people and welcome to the discussion. >>> > >>> > As there is more than 1 arch that goes to be added to linux soon, >>> > maybe it's better to upstream my ans James' patches separately >>> > from other ilp32 patches? Arnd? >>> >>> Do you mean upstream those two patches slightly later? That's >>> fine with me, I don't care much whether the old new stat is part >>> of the syscall table for arm64-ilp32 or not, I'd leave that up to >>> you, depending on whether you want to do the rework or not. >> >> I mean that if we want to deprecate rlimit and stat syscalls for >> architectures that are under development now, it's better to upstream >> patches that actually deprecate it as early as possible. > > Makes sense. > >>> I suppose the arm64-ilp32 could benefit from not having to support >>> the old arm32 stat structure, but doing the new syscalls based on >>> statx could delay the glibc port some more, as there are some open >>> questions about how that would best be integrated. >> >> OK. Let's leave things as is. But then I don't see any reason to >> add unxstat patch to ilp32 series if ilp32 will not disable it. > > Right, that's what I meant: let's leave the rlimit patch in your series > as it matches the work you have already done, and is the right > thing to do, and let's do the unxstat patch separately so it doesn't > cause you extra work.
Thanks for the heads up. We're in the process of submitting glibc now with the goal of getting into 2.26, so I think that means we'll be stuck with stat. I'm perfectly happy to deprecate whatever is feasible, though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html