linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 00/11] Application Data Integrity feature introduced by SPARC M7

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Message-ID: <b9507686-6c3f-7fb1-b305-c1817f86a884@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:19:21 -0600
From:   Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@...cle.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 00/11] Application Data Integrity feature introduced
 by SPARC M7

On 03/18/2018 09:08 AM, David Miller wrote:
> In uapi/asm/auxvec.h you conditionalize the ADI aux vectors on
> CONFIG_SPARC64.
> 
> That's not correct, you should never control user facing definitions
> based upon kernel configuration.
> 
> Also, both 32-bit and 64-bit applications running on ADI capable
> machines want to compile against and use this informaiton.
> 
> So please remove these CPP checks.
> 

Hi Dave,

That makes sense. I will send a patch to remove these.

Thanks,
Khalid