linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: Delete asm/compat.h

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:14:47 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        palmer@...ive.com, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: Delete asm/compat.h

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:43PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> riscv does not enable CONFIG_COMPAT in default configurations:
> defconfig, allmodconfig and allnoconfig.
> Remove the asm/compat.h as it does not seem to add any value to
> the architecture without CONFIG_COMPAT.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

> 
> Now that time compat syscalls are being reused in non CONFIG_COMPAT
> modes, asm-generic/compat.h provides definitions for riscv 32 bit
> mode.
> 
> Alternative would be to make compat_time.h to be conditional on
> CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME. But, since riscv does not does not need
> asm/compat.h, delete it instead.

Except that all this isn't relavant for this patch (and a horribly
bad idea, but Í'll reply to it separately).