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Re: misc/check-installed-headers-c failing due to upstream kernel change
- From: Ben Hutchings <ben dot hutchings at codethink dot co dot uk>
- To: Vineet Gupta <vineet dot gupta1 at synopsys dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Feng Tang <feng dot tang at intel dot com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis dot org>, Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation dot org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:57:49 +0000
- Subject: Re: misc/check-installed-headers-c failing due to upstream kernel change
- References: <4db851ae-9bb2-2159-96bf-c4b34b505bd9@synopsys.com>
On Mon, 2019-01-21 at 14:56 -0800, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems a recent upstream kernel change (went in 5.0-rcX) 81c9d43f9487
> ("kernel/sysctl: add panic_print into sysctl") trips one of the glibc tests.
>
> FAIL: misc/check-installed-headers-c
>
> > :: sys/sysctl.h
> > ::::
> > *** Obsolete types detected:
> > ~/install/compilers/arc-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/include/linux /sysctl.h:
> > KERN_PANIC_PRINT=78, /* ulong: bitmask to print system info on panic */
>
> It doesn't seem to like ulong (inside a comment). I don't have enough foo to fix
> it, but wanted to bring it to notice anyways.
This additions looks like a mistake, anyway - Linux's binary sysctl
interface is only there for ancient compatibility and no new sysctls
should be added to this enumeration.
Ben.
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