From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-abi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
deller@gmx.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Drop PER_HPUX personality
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 05:59:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anHiICAgWyO3yjxL@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260731125651.2924-1-deller@kernel.org>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 02:56:51PM +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
>
> Two and a half decades ago, there were plans to support HP-UX syscalls
> in Linux. This was never fully implemented, never worked and was never
> actually used by anybody.
> Let's simply drop this define now and free it up for other usages.
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
There's not real tree for include/uapi/linux/personality.h, maybe
we can get Andrew to merge it through -mm?
>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> ---
> include/uapi/linux/personality.h | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/personality.h b/include/uapi/linux/personality.h
> index 49796b7756af..243f5f80a7b8 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/personality.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/personality.h
> @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ enum {
> PER_SOLARIS = 0x000d | STICKY_TIMEOUTS,
> PER_UW7 = 0x000e | STICKY_TIMEOUTS | MMAP_PAGE_ZERO,
> PER_OSF4 = 0x000f, /* OSF/1 v4 */
> - PER_HPUX = 0x0010,
> PER_MASK = 0x00ff,
> };
>
> --
> 2.54.0
>
---end quoted text---
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-04 12:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-31 12:56 [PATCH] UAPI: Drop PER_HPUX personality Helge Deller
2026-08-04 12:59 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-08-04 13:02 ` Helge Deller
2026-08-04 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
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