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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines.
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 12:12:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFxZWB8pdjGdo9byxnHvkdmvJF5z2W7aiuTbJrK_t7HjRw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3c311c8b-e8a3-0cbe-1c7e-b336c4c0f894@panix.com>

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> On 06/02/2017 03:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> Can we please fix these conditionals so that only those
>> relevant to Linux remain?
>
> I was going for the minimal change since this is dusty-deck code that I
> can't practically test, but I have no objection to your more thorough
> approach.  I don't see anything I would do differently.

Yes, I think I'd just prefer to rip out the stale stuff, and remove
the "#ifdef linux" entirely.

It's not like the kernel wants non-linux headers, and I don't see
non-linux users using the kernel headers either.

               Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-02 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-01 21:00 [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines Zack Weinberg
2017-06-02  7:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-06-02 12:06   ` Zack Weinberg
2017-06-02 19:12     ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2017-06-14 12:43       ` Zack Weinberg
2017-06-14 15:14         ` Christoph Hellwig

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