Re: [GIT PULL] arm64: Linux kernel port

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> >
> > Please pull the tag below containing the arm64 Linux port. The code
> > lives primarily under arch/arm64/ with a few bits of generic code
> > outside this. Thanks.
> 
> Ok, pulled.

Thanks.

> However, looking at the non-arm64 changes, I note:
> 
>  - the UID16 config option *has* to be fixed.
> 
>    This is not really about arm64, the ugliness comes from every crazy
> architecture. But we really need to fix this to have something like a
> "HAVE_UID16" config option, and have the architectures that support
> this select that option, so that the UID16 config option can just have
> a "depends on HAVE_UID16".
> 
>    Please? Anybody?
>
>  - same goes for DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE.
> 
>  - very similar issues for the crazy mess of "#if defined()" in
> kernel/sysctl.c. Can we please just add a SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
> config option, and have the architectures that want this just select
> it?

I agree, they don't look nice. I'll post patches to clean them up.

-- 
Catalin