[OE-core] [PATCH] linux-libc-headers: Add big warning about antisocial behaviour

[Khem Raj]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Phil Blundell <pb at pbcl.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 21:24 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> There are cases where we have bsps with 2.6.3x kernels and libc
>> compiled against 3.10 assumes syscalls
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> That is a bug in glibc.  It should not be doing that unless configured
> --enable-kernel=3.10.x (and this is the whole point of the
> --enable-kernel option).  If it's assuming 3.10.x syscalls under
> --enable-kernel=2.6.x then it is broken and should be fixed.
>

we have OLDEST_KERNEL = "2.6.16" and thats not a problem. However one
case where it showed up was when building udev > 164 with kernels
where accept4 call was not wired for arm e.g. since udev looked up
definition of SOCK_CLOEXEC which it found but that 2.6.32 kernel
really did not support it.

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