[PATCH] <bits/syscall.h>: Use an arch-independent system call list on Linux

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Apr 6 13:24:00 GMT 2017


On 04/06/2017 02:49 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Apr 06 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, but if glibc carries an explicit list, we can schedule the glibc
>> rebuild before the kernel build.
>
> You can do the same with an updated kernel headers package.

But the uapi kernel headers aren't separate upstream, and until they 
are, the proposed new approach to SYS_* generation may be superior.

Unless everyone else but us generates their own separate kernel-headers 
package, that is. :-/

Thanks,
Florian



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