WTF: patch "[PATCH] ARC: Support syscall ABI v4" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.7-stable tree?

[Vineet Gupta]

On 09/06/2016 01:22 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> > Not "we need to support gcc6 for
> > old kernels", as really, if someone wants to update userspace, they
> > don't update their kernel?

FWIW, I'm not arguing for the backport inclusion - I'm just trying to explain the
context more.

Thing is your regular user/customer don't really care/know about these details. So
there are tools bugs and more often than not the easy answer for tools providers
is "this is a known issue in gcc x.y which has been fixed in gcc x2.y2 so consider
upgrading". So it is for such class of users that having such backports makes life
a little easy.

Thx,
-Vineet