From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM64: fix building without CONFIG_UID16
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:38:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151130083858.GB4045@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3891403.6hGat7eHq5@wuerfel>
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> As reported by Michal Simek, building an ARM64 kernel with CONFIG_UID16
> disabled currently fails because the system call table still needs to
> reference the individual function entry points that are provided by
> kernel/sys_ni.c in this case, and the declarations are hidden inside
> of #ifdef CONFIG_UID16:
Will we ever get rid of UID16? kernel/uid.c contains this nice comment:
/*
* Wrapper functions for 16bit uid back compatibility. All nicely tied
* together in the faint hope we can take the out in five years time.
*/
Which seems to exist since at least February 2000. ;)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-30 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 11:12 [PATCH] ARM64: fix building without CONFIG_UID16 Arnd Bergmann
2015-11-23 15:22 ` Will Deacon
2015-11-25 12:16 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-11-30 8:38 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
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