* Carlos O'Donell: > On 6/10/20 2:00 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Carlos, >> >> What's the status of this patch? > > I'm currently rewriting the language of the section to split apart the > AT_PLATFORM and AT_HWCAP parts. > > They each behave differently. AT_PLATFORM is a non-nested singular platform > directory that is searched with no fallback, and that needs to clarified > and called out. While AT_HWCAP is drastically different in behaviour. > > When done we'll have two lists, and two explanations for the search paths > and their orders. > > I'm doing this as part of the upstream review of this infrasturcture > because we're going to change the behaviour in an upcoming release. With > the changes in place we'll have a good place to say "... and now it's different." > > In summary: Still working on it. Expect v3. Carlos, what's the status here? I need to write an update for glibc-hwcaps, and this likely conflicts with your edits (at least semantically). Thanks, Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael O'Neill
