linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Make basic compat

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Message-ID: <20180712082034.GA8802@infradead.org>
Date:   Thu, 12 Jul 2018 01:20:34 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     tglx@...utronix.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, catalin.marinas@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Make basic compat_* types always available

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:41PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> As we repurpose more compat syscalls to be used in non CONFIG_COMPAT
> usecases as part of solving y2038, we need to make these basic types
> available unconditionally.

NAK.  Compat code is for foreign ABIs.  If this code is going to
be used elsewhere it should not be named compat_ and not be in
compat.h.