From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:41:35 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Jiri Slaby Cc: Ben Hutchings , Heiko Carstens , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, lwn@lwn.net, Tony Luck , Jiri Slaby , raven@themaw.net Subject: Re: Build broken on s390 and ia64 [was: Linux 2.6.32.58] Message-ID: <20120309084135.GF25153@1wt.eu> References: <20120304180911.GA7336@kroah.com> <4F54A46A.6000305@suse.cz> <20120305120241.GA3627@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <4F54B618.1090301@suse.cz> <20120305223338.GE2930@1wt.eu> <1331270953.3022.89.camel@deadeye> <20120309065703.GE25153@1wt.eu> <4F59BE04.5030509@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F59BE04.5030509@suse.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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