Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Oct 2018 14:16:45 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] parisc fixes for kernel v4.19 |
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On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 11:02:13PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote: > Hi Greg, > > please pull a last set of fixes for the parisc architecture for kernel 4.19 from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux.git parisc-4.19-3 > > The major change is for parisc64 to use a 64-bit suseconds_t type to > match what glibc expects for 64-bit userspace. It's an ABI change, but > since we don't have a 64-bit userspace on parisc yet, it won't introduce > a breakage.
Isn't it a bit "late" in the release cycle for such a change? Why not do this on the -rc1 release?
> Other than that we simply drop unused code and outdated gcc version > checks.
Why are those needed now?
thanks,
greg k-h
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