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

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Message-ID: <20180803073916.GA19580@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 3 Aug 2018 00:39:16 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...ive.com>
Cc:     deepa.kernel@...il.com, zongbox@...il.com, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: Delete asm/compat.h

On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 06:26:58PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> I thought we were using this to make uname print "riscv64" (or "riscv32")
> instead of just "riscv"?  Is there another mechanism to do that?

That is set in the UTS_MACHINE variable in arch/riscv/Makefile
and doesn't involve compat.h at all except when actually implementing
32-bit compat on 64 bit, which RISC-V doesn't (at least yet).