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.

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