Re: make AT_SYSINFO platform-independent

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 06:07:17 EST


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:26PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
> How about moving the AT_SYSINFO macro from asm-i386/elf.h to
> linux/elf.h? Several architectures can benefit from it (certainly
> pa-risc and ia64) and since glibc also defines it in a
> non-platformspecific fashion, there really is no point not doing the
> same in the kernel. I suppose it would be nice if we could renumber
> it from 32 to 18, but that would require updating glibc, which is
> probably too painful.

I think it should be updated. There is no released glibc or stable kernel
with that number yet.

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