On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:23:32AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 03/09/2012 07:57 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Thanks but now I have a doubt, maybe Jiri and Tony can help. In the > > commit above, Tony says that CONFIG_COMPAT has been broken for a long > > time (2008) and nobody apparently uses it. Still, Jiri got a build > > failure because he used CONFIG_COMPAT. So either there are some valid > > uses and we should not remove the feature that late in a stable branch, > > or Jiri only encountered it upon a make allyesconfig then it might > > be safe to remove it. > > It's a SLE11-SP1 that is using the kernel and has COMPAT on ia64 > enabled. I don't know if it is broken or if we provide support for that.
Thanks for the quick feedback Jiri. > If you are sure COMPAT is broken on ia64 even in 2.6.32, feel free to > ban COMPAT completely. Just checked on the net, it looks like Tony's comment is right as SLE11 apparently provides ia32el. So that's OK, I'll apply Ben's patch. Thanks guys, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
