Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] x86/Kconfig: Document release year of glibc 2.3.3

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Heidelberg via B4 Relay <devnull+david.ixit.cz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx>
> 
> I wonder how many people were checking their glibc version when
> considering whether to enable this option.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Heidelberg <david@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index ba6ba3a7011554d9cb58fb0acf48d541da8ed69b..22dd962f8e5c86741a512e12596bd940cd1dae97 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -2225,7 +2225,7 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU
>  
>  config COMPAT_VDSO
>  	def_bool n
> -	prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
> +	prompt "Workaround for glibc 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 (released in year 2003/2004)"
>  	depends on COMPAT_32
>  	help
>  	  Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are

So I applied this patch, because it's an obvious improvement over the
status quo - but I think we should finally remove COMPAT_VDSO...

Thanks,

	Ingo