>>> On 11.04.16 at 18:53, <konrad.w...@oracle.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 05:25:04PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Jan Beulich writes ("Re: REST MAINTAINERS feedback requested Was:Re: >> Certainly if >> we are going to permit these strings etc. to be bigger than fits in >> the old hypercall, the old hypercall needs to be deprecated on the >> grounds that it can provide incomplete or inaccurate information. > > The build-id in Config.mk is set to use sha1. Which produces 20 bytes. > You (or anybody else) can modify Config.mk to modify --build-id > as per man ld (there is an uuid or md5 or): > > "0xhexstring" to use a chosen bit string specified as an even number of > hexadecimal > digits ("-" and ":" characters between digit pairs are ignored)." > > which does not impose any limits.
This has nothing to do with the discussion here, imo. The new build-id sub-op can, as said numerous times before, easily have a buffer length communicated. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel