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Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 12:44:51 -0800
From: Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: iproute2 & other software
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:37 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem@...il.com <mailto:raj.khem@...il.com>> wrote:
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> > On Mar 2, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden@...il.com <mailto:loganaden@...il.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Stephen (iproute2) sent me a mail telling me that he rejected my patch to iproute2 for musl support:
> >
> > 1st reply:
> > "
> > I was waiting for others who had more to say on this.
> > Ok with providing small fixes, but can't really guarantee iproute to
> > work with other libraries.
> > "
> >
> > & 2nd is :
> > "
> > Sorry, I have to reject this.
> > All include files in include/linux come from headers automatically generated from upstream
> > Linux source. This is the only way to ensure long term ABI/API consistency
> > with kernel.
> >
> > Either fix musl or submit patches to upstream kernel and get them merged.
> > “
>
> Where is your patch.
>
>
> Rejected patch here:
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/586121/ <https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/586121/>
>
The change needs a bit more description of the problem its trying to fix.
Concern is if it will still work with glibc or uclibc on linux
one way you could keep functionality same for existing libcs
is to ifdef these files with #ifdef __GLIBC__
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