From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:49:11 -0800 Message-ID: <20100305114911.ef629eb1.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <201002021536.51928.arnd@arndb.de> <20100203.091309.52886984.davem@davemloft.net> <4B69D6BA.4030704@zytor.com> <201002040838.10783.arnd@arndb.de> <20100204160057.GA5120@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35005 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755361Ab0CETwV (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:52:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100204160057.GA5120@lst.de> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "H. Peter Anvin" , David Miller , 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 On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:00:57 +0100 Christoph Hellwig 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?