Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:06:26 +0200 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [patch/rfc] s390: get rid of own uid16 compat system calls |
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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:03:42AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 10 July 2006 10:51, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > "Only" thing is that we unfortunately have different sizes for > > __kernel_old_[uid|gid]_t (16 bit on s390, 32 on s390x). I was tempted to > > change these just to find out that there are other users as well: > > > > include/linux/ncp_fs.h: > > ?#define NCP_IOC_GETMOUNTUID _IOW('n', 2, __kernel_old_uid_t) > > include/linux/smb_fs.h: > > ?#define SMB_IOC_GETMOUNTUID _IOR('u', 1, __kernel_old_uid_t) > > > > So, this is no option. Would anybody know of something to get this work? > > Or is this just a stupid idea? > > Ok, I don't know exactly what you're talking about, but I have in the > past tried to hack that area as well. It's probably a good idea to > pick up my old patch and work from there, by making these two file systems > understand all possible ways:
I dropped my initial patch and gave up on this. The idea of using kernel/uid16.c for compat code seems to be... not very good :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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