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Re: glibc 2.24 --- Starting soft/slush freeze discussion
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 08:28:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.24 --- Starting soft/slush freeze discussion
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Adhemerval Zanella
<adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As stated in a previous messages the idea is to start soft/slushy freeze mode
> tomorrow July 1st. There were some discussion about delay it for a week [1],
> but I see no compelling reasons to do so. As stated by Torvald, the new
> rwlock implementation will take some more days and he also made no promises.
> The tunables is something I think we would like to add, but I think we can
> either drop it again for new release or continue the discussion based on
> IFUNC enable/disable [2].
I'd ike to get IFUNC enable/disable into 2.24 since missing one glibc release
means that it may take up to 10 years to get in distros.
> I will spend some time tomorrow compiling the release blockers for 2.24, so
> please use this thread as placeholder to discuss them. I would like to
> have them defined by the end of tomorrow.
>
> Documentation changes and bug fixes are OK.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg01214.html
> [2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg01236.html
> [3] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.24
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H.J.