Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:38:58 +0100 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ARM64: fix building without CONFIG_UID16 |
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:12:21PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > As reported by Michal Simek, building an ARM64 kernel with CONFIG_UID16 > disabled currently fails because the system call table still needs to > reference the individual function entry points that are provided by > kernel/sys_ni.c in this case, and the declarations are hidden inside > of #ifdef CONFIG_UID16:
Will we ever get rid of UID16? kernel/uid.c contains this nice comment:
/* * Wrapper functions for 16bit uid back compatibility. All nicely tied * together in the faint hope we can take the out in five years time. */
Which seems to exist since at least February 2000. ;)
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