From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: remove CONFIG_UID16
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:12:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43AB24DC.20209@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051217183854.GQ23349@stusta.de>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:18:07PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>>On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:44:10AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>
>>>It seems noone noticed that CONFIG_UID16 was accidentially always
>>>disabled in the latest -mm kernels.
>>>
>>>Is there any reason against removing it completely?
>>
>>Yes, it breaks backwards-compatilbity for not even that old binaries.
>>
>>There's not way we're ever going to remove it.
>
>
> You are right.
>
> Sorry, this was a dumb idea
The question is, did you prove that (a) the people who need it are smart
enough to set it, or (b) the people who need it are not testing -mm kernels.
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-22 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-17 4:44 remove CONFIG_UID16 Adrian Bunk
2005-12-17 13:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-17 18:38 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-12-22 22:12 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2005-12-17 19:54 ` Matt Mackall
2005-12-17 21:40 ` [-mm patch] re-enable UID16 for !EMBEDDED Adrian Bunk
[not found] <5kCbe-45z-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-17 10:28 ` remove CONFIG_UID16 Bodo Eggert
2005-12-17 18:29 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-21 22:33 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-12-21 23:23 ` Lee Revell
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