From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 054/272] compat: move cp_compat_stat to common code
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:14:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015.221445.165279781.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810160502.m9G525d8028553@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:05 -0700
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> struct stat / compat_stat is the same on all architectures, so
> cp_compat_stat should be, too.
>
> Turns out it is, except that various architectures have slightly and some
> high2lowuid/high2lowgid or the direct assignment instead of the
> SET_UID/SET_GID that expands to the correct one anyway.
>
> This patch replaces the arch-specific cp_compat_stat implementations with
> a common one based on the x86-64 one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sparc bits:
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-16 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-16 5:02 [patch 054/272] compat: move cp_compat_stat to common code akpm
2008-10-16 5:14 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-10-16 15:17 ` Kyle McMartin
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