From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: iproute2 & other software
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:44:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9E4ED0C3-B227-43C9-864E-11C66CCECA8C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOp4FwQTR5Nfkx4xGUcvSb8HKZR7NFEsaxMRyqLeC+zne5W2Kw@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com <mailto:raj.khem@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@gmail.com <mailto:loganaden@gmail.com>> wrote:
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > Stephen (iproute2) sent me a mail telling me that he rejected my patch to iproute2 for musl support:
> >
> > 1st reply:
> > "
> > I was waiting for others who had more to say on this.
> > Ok with providing small fixes, but can't really guarantee iproute to
> > work with other libraries.
> > "
> >
> > & 2nd is :
> > "
> > Sorry, I have to reject this.
> > All include files in include/linux come from headers automatically generated from upstream
> > Linux source. This is the only way to ensure long term ABI/API consistency
> > with kernel.
> >
> > Either fix musl or submit patches to upstream kernel and get them merged.
> > “
>
> Where is your patch.
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>
> Rejected patch here:
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> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/586121/ <https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/586121/>
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The change needs a bit more description of the problem its trying to fix.
Concern is if it will still work with glibc or uclibc on linux
one way you could keep functionality same for existing libcs
is to ifdef these files with #ifdef __GLIBC__
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-02 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-02 19:19 Loganaden Velvindron
2016-03-02 20:37 ` Khem Raj
2016-03-02 20:39 ` Loganaden Velvindron
2016-03-02 20:44 ` Khem Raj [this message]
2016-03-02 23:18 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-02 20:49 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-02 23:30 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-03 10:10 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-03 16:00 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-03 16:12 Kylie McClain
2016-03-03 17:01 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-03 19:05 ` Rich Felker
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