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Message-ID: <20210722162228.GA9882@lst.de>
Date:   Thu, 22 Jul 2021 18:22:28 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 1/6] compat: make linux/compat.h available
 everywhere

On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 04:28:58PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> Parts of linux/compat.h are under an #ifdef, but we end up
> using more of those over time, moving things around bit by
> bit.
> 
> To get it over with once and for all, make all of this file
> uncondititonal now so it can be accessed everywhere. There
> are only a few types left that are in asm/compat.h but not
> yet in the asm-generic version, so add those in the process.
> 
> This requires providing a few more types in asm-generic/compat.h
> that were not already there. The only tricky one is
> compat_sigset_t, which needs a little help on 32-bit architectures
> and for x86.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Looks good,

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

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