Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 15:08:26 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [patch] futex patches, futex-2.5.69-A2 |
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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:56:42PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > it's not vendor braindamage.
I didn't sayd sys_futex is vendor braindamage. The problem is that vendors think they need to put all the unstable features into their release tree. There's a reaaon those aren';t in the released stable kernels.
> you dont understand, do you? There are very valid and perfectly working > glibc installations [and maybe NGPT installations, futex users, etc.] out > there that will break if you remove sys_futex(). No amount of rpm hacking > will fix them up.
And they'll break if you run _any_ released stable kernel, so what? Let the vendors fix the mess they introduced by backporting unstable features instead of burdening it up on mainline.
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