On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 05:34:43PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 10 August 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Unless I missed a twist the only reason for s390 to not use the code in
> > kernel/uid.c was that it copied the code from sparc64 (that is now
> > being changed in a similar way by David).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I tried doing this before but couldn't figure out an easy way,
> but the circumstances may have changed by now.
>
> Back then, the basic problem was that CONFIG_UID16 had side-effects
> that break the 64-bit versions of some syscalls. I don't see that
> being the case any more, but from what I can tell, you still need
> to add definitions for __kernel_old_uid_t etc on s390x.
They are already in arch/s390/include/asm/posix_types.h
The one thing I can say about my patch is that it compiles with the
defconfig (where the uid16 code is used due to COMPAT=y).
> If that does the trick, great work!
>
> Arnd <><
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Adrian
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