On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 13:22 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: > In my never ending quest to get consolekit/polkit/etc working properly > I've found that CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL is really usefull (it's usefull in > other contexts as well, but that's outside the oe-core set of > recipes). It has the following problem: > > config AUDITSYSCALL > bool "Enable system-call auditing support" > depends on AUDIT && (X86 || PPC || S390 || IA64 || UML || > SPARC64 || SUPERH) > > No MIPS or ARM support. There recently was a pull request from Al Viro > to get at least ARM support into mainline, but I'm not sure what > happened to that. Anyway, I backported the ARM patch to 3.0 and 3.2, > but to make it usefull I'd need to patch linux-libc-headers and bump > PR on virtual/libc. > > What's the OE-core position on backporting syscalls to > linux-libc-headers?
Why can't we just increase the linux-libc-headers version? Presumably someone running a kernel without the patches won't see any issue, the syscall just won't be present and software will fall back? I think the big concern would be deviating from mainline as its not so much a backport as a divergence at this point (and this is why we can't just upgrade)? CC'ing Bruce since I know he holds opinions on this kind of thing :) Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core