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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH_i386
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:48:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110731224834.GC2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1312151063.18010.25.camel@i7.infradead.org>

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:24:21PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 00:11 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> > 
> > Why do we need this? 
> 
> The arch/x86_64 and arch/i386 directories were removed from the kernel
> four years ago, and replaced by the 'x86' arch. UML is still dependent
> on the legacy SUBARCH=i386 and SUBARCH=x86_64 settings, and the patch
> sequence I just posted makes it cope with SUBARCH=x86.

Hell, no.  If you want to do it, do it the right way.  See #x86_merge in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/um-header.git/

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-31 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1312066693.22074.50.camel@i7.infradead.org>
2011-07-30 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] um: Remove gratuitous use of $(SUBARCH) in Makefile-i386 David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] um: Use __i386__ in ifdef for vsyscall exports, not SUBARCH_i386 David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 22:11   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-07-31 22:24     ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 22:48       ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-07-31 22:58         ` Al Viro
2011-07-31 23:13           ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-31 23:17             ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-07-31 23:24               ` David Woodhouse
2011-08-01  4:32               ` Al Viro
2011-08-01 10:04                 ` [uml-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-08-01 10:40                   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-08-01 17:23                   ` Al Viro
2011-08-01 17:52                 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-08-09 23:38                   ` Al Viro
2011-08-10  4:04                     ` Al Viro
2011-08-10 17:44                       ` Al Viro
2011-08-11  4:23                         ` Al Viro
2011-08-11 12:13                           ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-08-11 14:05                             ` Al Viro
2011-07-31 23:09         ` David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] um: Always use -m32 when building for i386 David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:02 ` [PATCH 4/5] um: Do not define SUBARCH in CFLAGS David Woodhouse
2011-07-30 23:04 ` [PATCH 5/5] um: Fix SUBARCH=x86 build David Woodhouse

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