On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:48:12PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 02:31:41PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > overflowuid and overflowgid were exported twice. Remove the export > > > from s390_ksyms.c > > > > There's a gotcha with this. in kernel/sys.c, we only export those > > symbols if CONFIG_UID16 is set. iirc, there was some part of > > arch/s390 that expected to use those symbols even if it wasn't set. > > > > Does everything still link with that option both set and unset ? > > It does on my partition; near as I can tell the only use of overflowuid > is in compat_linux.c, which is always compiled in.
arch/s390/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c which can be build as a module uses this too. But only with the two NEW_TO_OLD_UID and NEW_TO_OLD_GID defines which seem to be unused and could be removed as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
