From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/21] powerpc: Use generic posix_types.h
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 07:26:37 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1329423997.2892.20.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3399.1329399884@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 13:44 +0000, David Howells wrote:
> PowerPC exports __FD_SET() and co. to userspace under some circumstances,
> therefore this patch potentially breaks the userspace ABI. Is this okay, Ben?
I don't know why we would need that in userspace, unless some tools I
don't know about exploit them (hint: there shouldn't be)
I'm happy to remove them and see if anybody complains.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-16 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 5:08 [PATCH 00/21] RFC: Make all arches use <asm-generic/posix_types.h> H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 01/21] posix_types: Make __kernel_[ug]id32_t default to unsigned int H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 02/21] posix_types: Make it possible to override __kernel_fsid_t H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 03/21] alpha: Use generic posix_types.h H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 04/21] arm: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-09 0:57 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 05/21] avr32: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 06/21] cris: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 13:21 ` Jesper Nilsson
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 07/21] frv: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 08/21] h8300: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 09/21] ia64: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 10/21] m32r: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 11/21] m68k: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-19 10:28 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 12/21] mips: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 13/21] mn10300: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 14/21] parisc: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` [PATCH 15/21] powerpc: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-09 6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 16/21] s390: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 9:04 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-02-08 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 18:01 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 17/21] sh: Remove unnecessary posix_types.h type overrides H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 18/21] sparc: Use generic posix_types.h H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-09 1:27 ` David Miller
2012-02-09 1:27 ` David Miller
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 19/21] x86: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 20/21] xtensa: " H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` [PATCH 21/21] posix_types: Remove fd_set macros H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 5:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 12:20 ` David Howells
2012-02-08 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 21:24 ` David Howells
2012-02-08 21:24 ` David Howells
2012-02-08 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-08 21:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-14 18:59 ` Tony Luck
2012-02-14 19:18 ` David Howells
2012-02-14 19:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-14 20:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-16 13:42 ` [PATCH 20/21] xtensa: Use generic posix_types.h David Howells
2012-02-16 17:45 ` Marc Gauthier
2012-02-16 13:44 ` [PATCH 13/21] mn10300: " David Howells
2012-02-16 13:44 ` [PATCH 15/21] powerpc: " David Howells
2012-02-16 20:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2012-02-16 20:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-02-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 0/3] Eliminating __FD_*() functions from the kernel David Howells
2012-02-16 17:49 ` David Howells
2012-02-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 1/3] Wrap accesses to the fd_sets in struct fdtable David Howells
2012-02-16 17:49 ` [PATCH 2/3] Replace the fd_sets in struct fdtable with an array of unsigned longs David Howells
2012-02-16 17:50 ` [PATCH 3/3] Delete the __FD_*() funcs for operating on fd_set from linux/time.h David Howells
2012-02-16 17:50 ` David Howells
2012-02-20 21:12 ` [PATCH 13/21] mn10300: Use generic posix_types.h David Howells
2012-02-20 21:12 ` David Howells
2012-02-20 21:12 ` [PATCH 07/21] frv: " David Howells
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