From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
tony.luck@intel.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:49:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305114911.ef629eb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100204160057.GA5120@lst.de>
On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:00:57 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:38:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > I think it would be better to have a consistent behavior across
> > architectures, so /something/ should be changed. On x86, the unused
> > sys32_personality function can probable just be removed, if nothing
> > else.
> >
> > If we can get everyone to agree with the x86 way of handling this,
> > we can also remove all the special cases for sys32_personality in the
> > other architectures.
>
> Yes, this should be common over architectures. Anyway, I expect there
> to be some discussion until we've reached that point, so for now I'll
> rebase patches 5 and 6 to not require this patch, and will send one
> to kill the unused x86 implementation. Whatever is the final outcome
> can be implemented on top.
>
This never happened?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-01 18:56 [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-02 14:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-02 16:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-03 17:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-03 17:13 ` David Miller
2010-02-03 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-04 7:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-04 16:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-05 19:49 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-03-09 12:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
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