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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Tim Hockin wrote:
> 
> I'd love to put it in uid16.c, but uid16.c is not used by the 64-bit
> architectures.

How about just putting it in "gid16.c" and then adding a CONFIG_GID16
config variable. Then architectures that want it (pretty much all, no?)  
can then obviously just do the

	config GID16
		bool
		default y

in their Kconfig files and be happy. Add the obvious

	obj-$(CONFIG_GID16) += gid16.o

to the kernel makefile and you're done. Looks surgically clean, and 
follows existing practice wrt uid16.

Ok?

		Linus