From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263264AbTJBJPx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 05:15:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263317AbTJBJPx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 05:15:53 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:40852 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263264AbTJBJPw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Oct 2003 05:15:52 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:10:37 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Rusty Russell Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, zaitcev@redhat.com, braam@clusterfs.com, thockin@hockin.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, davidm@hpl.hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Many groups patch. Message-Id: <20031002021037.3e6706c4.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031002022545.6FB7A2C0EA@lists.samba.org> References: <20031002022545.6FB7A2C0EA@lists.samba.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.2 (GTK+ 1.2.6; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:09:19 +1000 Rusty Russell wrote: > Sure. First step is to put this function in kernel/compat.c where it > belongs. The identical function is already in kernel/uid16.c, but > defining CONFIG_UID16 does not work for these platforms (which only > want 16-bit uids for the 32-bit syscalls). This is correct. To be more precise, we also need it for the compat ABI binary format handlers too (elf32, etc.)