From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ld.so.8: Update "Hardware capabilities" section for glibc 2.31.
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:12:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft4mue8f.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84511dbb-2c38-b928-3155-1027a6078a96@redhat.com> (Carlos O'Donell's message of "Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:53:09 -0400")
* Carlos O'Donell:
> On 6/10/20 2:00 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Carlos,
>>
>> What's the status of this patch?
>
> I'm currently rewriting the language of the section to split apart the
> AT_PLATFORM and AT_HWCAP parts.
>
> They each behave differently. AT_PLATFORM is a non-nested singular platform
> directory that is searched with no fallback, and that needs to clarified
> and called out. While AT_HWCAP is drastically different in behaviour.
>
> When done we'll have two lists, and two explanations for the search paths
> and their orders.
>
> I'm doing this as part of the upstream review of this infrasturcture
> because we're going to change the behaviour in an upcoming release. With
> the changes in place we'll have a good place to say "... and now it's different."
>
> In summary: Still working on it. Expect v3.
Carlos, what's the status here? I need to write an update for
glibc-hwcaps, and this likely conflicts with your edits (at least
semantically).
Thanks,
Florian
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-27 20:02 [PATCH] ld.so.8: Update "Hardware capabilities" section for glibc 2.31 Carlos O'Donell
2020-05-28 9:35 ` Florian Weimer
2020-05-28 15:05 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-02 3:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-02 6:14 ` Florian Weimer
2020-06-10 6:00 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-06-11 20:53 ` Carlos O'Donell
2020-06-13 12:00 ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-04 9:12 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-12-04 21:19 ` Carlos O'Donell
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