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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	lwn@lwn.net, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
	raven@themaw.net
Subject: Re: Build broken on s390 and ia64 [was: Linux 2.6.32.58]
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:41:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309084135.GF25153@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F59BE04.5030509@suse.cz>

On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:23:32AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 07:57 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > Thanks but now I have a doubt, maybe Jiri and Tony can help. In the
> > commit above, Tony says that CONFIG_COMPAT has been broken for a long
> > time (2008) and nobody apparently uses it. Still, Jiri got a build
> > failure because he used CONFIG_COMPAT. So either there are some valid
> > uses and we should not remove the feature that late in a stable branch,
> > or Jiri only encountered it upon a make allyesconfig then it might
> > be safe to remove it.
> 
> It's a SLE11-SP1 that is using the kernel and has COMPAT on ia64
> enabled. I don't know if it is broken or if we provide support for that.

Thanks for the quick feedback Jiri.

> If you are sure COMPAT is broken on ia64 even in 2.6.32, feel free to
> ban COMPAT completely.

Just checked on the net, it looks like Tony's comment is right as
SLE11 apparently provides ia32el.

So that's OK, I'll apply Ben's patch.

Thanks guys,
Willy


      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-04 18:09 Linux 2.6.32.58 Greg KH
2012-03-04 18:09 ` Greg KH
2012-03-04 23:22 ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-05 11:32 ` Build broken on s390 and ia64 [was: Linux 2.6.32.58] Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 12:02   ` Heiko Carstens
2012-03-05 12:48     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 12:54       ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-05 12:56         ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-05 13:13       ` Heiko Carstens
2012-03-05 13:18         ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-05 22:33       ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-08 11:06         ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-08 11:47           ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-09  5:29         ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-09  6:57           ` Willy Tarreau
2012-03-09  8:23             ` Jiri Slaby
2012-03-09  8:41               ` Willy Tarreau [this message]

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