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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "linux: Move xmknod{at} to compat symbols"
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:39:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c312536-35ee-9ed7-e231-3bac939fefa6@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuukhpd5.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>



On 23/10/2020 13:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
> 
>> This reverts commit 81b83ff61f95f30ad53d6075247af0ea61a0b16e responsible
>> to make both __xmknod{at} compatible symbols.
>>
>> The idea is to not force static libraries built against old glibc
>> to update against new glibcs (since they reference the the
>> xmknod{at} symbols).
> 
> I think it's not correct to label this as a revert in the Git sense.
> At best it's a partial revert.  I tried first to verify this as an
> actual revert and was wondering if I got the diffing wrong.

Ok, I will change to a partial remove.

> 
> I think you need to remove libc_hidden_def and libc_hidden_proto around
> __xmknod, __xmknodat.  “git grep 'libc_hidden.*__xmknod'” should not
> return anything.  Maybe that should be a separate patch.

If I recall correctly they are still required for Hurd, but I double
check.  In fact I think we should remove all the io/*xstat* and
io/*xmknod* since there is no point in providing them as generic
interfaces.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-23 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-22 19:03 [PATCH 1/2] Revert "linux: Move {f}xstat{at} " Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-22 19:03 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "linux: Move xmknod{at} " Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-23 16:35   ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 16:39     ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2020-10-23 16:43       ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 16:47         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-23 17:18           ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-23 18:56             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-26 12:56               ` Florian Weimer
2020-10-26 16:24                 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-10-26 16:30                   ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-02  1:45   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2020-12-02 11:32     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-12-24 11:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "linux: Move {f}xstat{at} " Andreas Schwab
2020-12-24 12:11   ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-24 12:32     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-24 13:11       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-12-24 14:28       ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-24 14:48         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-12-24 15:21           ` Florian Weimer

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