Re: [PATCH V4 00/27] C-SKY(csky) Linux Kernel Port

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:19 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 10:52 AM Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 07:37:20 PDT (-0700), ren_guo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:30:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:25 PM Guo Ren <ren_guo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My plan was to get that all into 4.20, and then have a conversation about the
> actual syscall table changes in 4.21. If we need it for both csky and rv32,
> we might just change the generic syscall table that way in 4.21 without
> changing all the other ones along with them. I don't want to drag things out
> over too many merge windows though, and my plan was to do all architectures
> together to simplify the version checks in the libc code to only have to check
> for a single version.

What happens with the version checks if it is backported to stable?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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