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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:26:06 -0600
From: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] CRED: Fixup credentials build breakage
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* David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>:
> Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> wrote:
> 
> > A recent patch titled:
> > 
> > 	CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct
> > 	
> > removed task security context from task_struct, but did not
> > update all locations to use the new struct cred that was
> > introduced.
> > 
> > The change to task_struct broke perfmon and ia32 syscalls on
> > ia64.  This patch fixes the build.
> 
> I've submitted a patch to fix this.

Thanks, clearly your patch is correct and mine was not. I was
just trying to get my build going again. I can apply yours by
hand to my own tree here to get going.

> > All things considered, I'd prefer to see this patch folded
> > into 7931c65268777ed10cab22486de149d742a1f269 so we can keep
> > bisectability. Would that be possible, given that these
> > changes are "only" in linux-next and haven't hit Linus's tree
> > yet?
> 
> Probably.  I'll have to talk to Stephen about how to do this.
> I can't maintain my patches on top of linux-next now:-/

Ok, I still think this would be a good idea, so if it's possible,
that would be great.

Thanks,

/ac