From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de,
y2038@lists.linaro.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Make basic compat_* types always available
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:20:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180712082034.GA8802@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180707054247.19802-2-deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:41PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> As we repurpose more compat syscalls to be used in non CONFIG_COMPAT
> usecases as part of solving y2038, we need to make these basic types
> available unconditionally.
NAK. Compat code is for foreign ABIs. If this code is going to
be used elsewhere it should not be named compat_ and not be in
compat.h.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-12 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-07 5:42 [PATCH v3 0/7] Introduce struct __kernel_timex Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Make basic compat_* types always available Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-12 8:20 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] sparc: Make thread_info.h available directly Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: Delete asm/compat.h Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-12 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-03 1:26 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-08-03 7:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-08-05 21:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] timex: prepare compat helpers for y2038 changes Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] time: Add struct __kernel_timex Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-11 9:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-12 8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-12 14:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] timex: use __kernel_timex internally Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-07 14:23 ` Richard Henderson
2018-07-12 8:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-07 5:42 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] timex: change syscalls to use struct __kernel_timex Deepa Dinamani
2018-07-12 8:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-12 14:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
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