linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] autofs4: fix compilation without CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:25:02 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, autofs@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] autofs4: fix compilation without CONFIG_COMPAT

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:22 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
>
> This patch would seem to be The Right Thing; the combination of this really
> takes what s390 has done in arch space and globalizes it.

Yeah, I already applied that s390 fixup and pushed it out. And yes,
the fact that s390 already did the whole "is_compat_task()" dance on
its own just shows that we should have done this in <linux/compat.h>
from the very beginning.

                  Linus
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