Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] asm-generic: reverse GENERIC_{STRNCPY_FROM,STRNLEN}_USER symbols

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 9/9] asm-generic: reverse GENERIC_{STRNCPY_FROM,STRNLEN}_USER symbols
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2021 11:44:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWjZWMtXqyLWPsCvNphoc2ZHut+UiwLuqDtG7Vir0OR2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210722124814.778059-10-arnd@kernel.org>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 2:50 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@kernel.org> wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> Most architectures do not need a custom implementation, and in most
> cases the generic implementation is preferred, so change the polariy
> on these Kconfig symbols to require architectures to select them when
> they provide their own version.
>
> The new name is CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_{STRNCPY_FROM,STRNLEN}_USER.
>
> The remaining architectures at the moment are: ia64, mips, parisc,
> s390, um and xtensa. We should probably convert these as well, but
> I was not sure how far to take this series.
>
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

>  arch/m68k/Kconfig                 |  2 --

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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