From: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Message-Id: <200210091738.g99HcBY15929@www.hockin.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.41 s390 (8/8): 16 bit uid/gids.
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:38:11 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: schwidefsky@de.ibm.com (Martin Schwidefsky), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210091022050.7355-100000@home.transmeta.com> from "Linus Torvalds" at Oct 09, 2002 10:24:04 AM
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> > Use common code for 16 bit user/groud id system calls on s390x.
> 
> Please make this use the real CONFIG_UID16_SYSCALLS instead of using a 
> magic __UID16 thing that is s390x-specific. Then you make everybody who 
> currently uses CONFIG_UID16 do both CONFIG_UID16 and 
> CONFIG_UID16_SYSCALLS.
> 
> We don't want magic config options like __UID16 that aren't exposed as 
> config options and make people go "Huh?!".


Linus, This is actually something I sent to Martin (and DaveM).  The __UID16
crap is because s390x and Sparc64 (and others?) do not want the highuid
stuff except in very specific places - namely compat code.  Just using
CONFIG_UID16_SYSCALLS has the same bad side-effect as CONFIG_UID16 - all or
nothing.  In short, we want to build uid16.o with highuid translations, and
a few other compat objects, but not everything.  Ugly.

I wasn't aware Martin had tried to push this one quite yet.  Have a
preferred solution?  I'd already passed this by DaveM and he said the fun
would be getting it past you :)

Tim
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