From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Helge Deller <deller@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-abi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UAPI: Drop PER_HPUX personality
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:02:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1de035b6-bd2e-4b60-a389-05465e6ae3e2@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <anHiICAgWyO3yjxL@infradead.org>
On 8/4/26 14:59, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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?
I can take it with the parisc linux tree, if ok for you.
Helge
>> 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---
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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
2026-08-04 13:02 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2026-08-04 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
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