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Re: Distributions still suffering from s390 ABI change problems.
- From: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- To: carlos at redhat dot com
- Cc: aurelien at aurel32 dot net, krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com, siddhesh at redhat dot com, allan at archlinux dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Distributions still suffering from s390 ABI change problems.
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- References: <20140714072228 dot GF1239 at hall dot aurel32 dot net> <20140714 dot 002520 dot 985400136122770421 dot davem at davemloft dot net> <53C40A5A dot 5050202 at redhat dot com>
From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 12:50:34 -0400
> IBM knew this was a serious mess, but for reasons of hardware enablement
> the size had to be extended.
This doesn't justify things, especially given what has ended up happening.
Either you find a clean way to change the structure size (bump libc's
SO version number), or you don't do it.