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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf.h: Add ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:01:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bddde8b3-54fe-ac80-1b15-640399da5d55@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qus8cuw.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com>

On 7/11/22 00:58, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha:
> 
>> I wish that the macro definition can catch up the upcoming
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.36 [1], so that
>> projects can expect the value ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD from elf.h.
>> The projects may choose to define the macro themselves,
>> but having the definition in an earlier release seems a good idea
>> anyway, and it the glibc definition makes it clearer ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD
>> is standard and vendors can start adding support.
>>
>> [1]: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2022-July/140352.html
>> ("Release of glibc 2.36 in 1 month! Please add blockers and desirable for release.")
> 
> This looks quite backportable to me, so it should not be a release
> blocker.  It's only a blocker if we apply the patch today, then we'd
> have to wait until the gABI assignment actually happens as expected.

Agreed. This is a NACK from me as the RM until the gABI assignment happens.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-18 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-08 23:32 Fangrui Song
2022-07-11  4:58 ` Florian Weimer
2022-07-18 14:01   ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2022-07-22 23:08     ` Fangrui Song
2022-07-26 20:23       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-07-26 20:30         ` Fangrui Song
2022-07-29 15:44           ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-08-04 20:04             ` Fangrui Song
2022-08-10  7:09               ` Fangrui Song
2022-08-10  7:46 ` Florian Weimer

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