Re: [PATCH] audit/userspace: add support for the parisc architecture

From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit/userspace: add support for the parisc architecture
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:00:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52DEDFDF.1040703@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140121105922.6cddf7ca@ivy-bridge>

Hi Steve,

On 01/21/2014 04:59 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Laurent Bigonville <bigon@debian.org> wrote:
>> Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> a écrit :
>>> The patch below adds support for the parisc architecture to the
>>> audit userspace tool.
>>>
>>> It would be great if you could apply this patch to trunk.
>>>
>>> I posted the corresponding Linux kernel patch to the parisc mailing
>>> list (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/3046731/) and plan to push
>>> it upstream when the merge window for Linux kernel v3.13 opens.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
>>
>> Any chances this patch could be merged? The debian package is now
>> including it (Ralf: I really would have preferred to see this merged
>> upstream _before_ it was pushed to the debian archive).
> 
> Merging it means a commitment on my part to maintain it. I don't get
> much help at all on the user space side. So, one thing I consider is
> how many of these processors are in use. I have no idea about this one.

Not too many, we just started to make it work on debian again.
See the magenta line in this graph:
http://buildd.debian-ports.org/stats/

hppa is actually the CPU used in the HP-UX machines (before HP switched
HPUX to Itanium).

Is the work for the various architectures so much?
If you break one by mistake, either you will get patches which fixes it,
or otherwise you can just leave it broken unless somebody cares (and as long
it doesn't break you main architectures like x86-64, ppc64 and similiar of course). 

Of course I will be helping for the hppa changes as long as I can, but I
don't expect too many changes/development coming, or?

> I can't say I have ever seen one in use anywhere. And I regret merging
> the alpha processor as it has very limited use and get no help
> maintaining it.

Please note, that I'm not subscribed to the audit-list yet.
I did sent an updated patch on January 18th to the one above, which I think
is still waiting for mailing-list moderator approval and didn't made it to 
the mailing list yet...

Helge

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