remove CONFIG_UID16
It seems noone noticed that CONFIG_UID16 was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.
Is there any reason against removing it completely?
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Adrian
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Pearl S. Buck - Dragon SeedQuoted 4 lines · Adrian Bunk
It seems noone noticed that
CONFIG_UID16was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.Is there any reason against removing it completely?
Yes, it breaks backwards-compatilbity for not even that old binaries.
There's not way we're ever going to remove it.
Quoted 9 lines · Christoph Hellwig
Quoted 4 lines · Adrian Bunk
It seems noone noticed that
CONFIG_UID16was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.Is there any reason against removing it completely?
Yes, it breaks backwards-compatilbity for not even that old binaries.
There's not way we're ever going to remove it.
You are right.
Sorry, this was a dumb idea
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Adrian
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Pearl S. Buck - Dragon SeedQuoted 2 lines · Adrian Bunk
It seems noone noticed that
CONFIG_UID16was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.
Hmm, did I break it?
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PATCH 1/1 re-enable UID16 for !EMBEDDED
Quoted 5 lines · Matt Mackall
Quoted 2 lines · Adrian Bunk
It seems noone noticed that
CONFIG_UID16was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.Hmm, did I break it?
Yes, patch below.
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Adrian
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UID16 was accidentially disabled for !EMBEDDED.
init/Kconfig renamed from init/Kconfig.old +1 -0
@@ -337,10 +337,11 @@ config UID16 bool "Enable 16-bit UID system calls" if EMBEDDED depends !ALPHA && !PPC && !PPC64 && !PARISC && !V850 && !ARCH_S390X depends !X86_64 || IA32_EMULATION depends !SPARC64 || SPARC32_COMPAT + default y help This enables the legacy 16-bit UID syscall wrappers. config CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE bool "Optimize for size"
Quoted 8 lines · Adrian Bunk
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Quoted 3 lines · Adrian Bunk
It seems noone noticed that
CONFIG_UID16was accidentially always disabled in the latest -mm kernels.Is there any reason against removing it completely?
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Yes, it breaks backwards-compatilbity for not even that old binaries.
There's not way we're ever going to remove it.
You are right.
Sorry, this was a dumb idea
The question is, did you prove that (a) the people who need it are smart enough to set it, or (b) the people who need it are not testing -mm kernels.
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