linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs: always build llseek.

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Message-ID: <20190828151552.GA16855@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:15:52 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
        Michael Neuling <mikey@...ling.org>,
        Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs: always build llseek.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:21:06PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 64bit !COMPAT does not build because the llseek syscall is in the tables.

Well, this will bloat thinkgs like 64-bit RISC-V for no good reason.
Please introduce a WANT_LSEEK like symbol that ppc64 can select instead.