From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932230Ab2JAUwf (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:52:35 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:42001 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756909Ab2JAUuh (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2012 16:50:37 -0400 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:49:51 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Arnd Bergmann , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] arm64: Linux kernel port Message-ID: <20121001204950.GA11875@arm.com> References: <20121001160043.GF12460@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > Please pull the tag below containing the arm64 Linux port. The code > > lives primarily under arch/arm64/ with a few bits of generic code > > outside this. Thanks. > > Ok, pulled. Thanks. > However, looking at the non-arm64 changes, I note: > > - the UID16 config option *has* to be fixed. > > This is not really about arm64, the ugliness comes from every crazy > architecture. But we really need to fix this to have something like a > "HAVE_UID16" config option, and have the architectures that support > this select that option, so that the UID16 config option can just have > a "depends on HAVE_UID16". > > Please? Anybody? > > - same goes for DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE. > > - very similar issues for the crazy mess of "#if defined()" in > kernel/sysctl.c. Can we please just add a SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE > config option, and have the architectures that want this just select > it? I agree, they don't look nice. I'll post patches to clean them up. -- Catalin