Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Oct 2012 21:49:51 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] arm64: Linux kernel port |
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 07:59:52PM +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Please pull the tag below containing the arm64 Linux port. The code > > lives primarily under arch/arm64/ with a few bits of generic code > > outside this. Thanks. > > Ok, pulled.
Thanks.
> However, looking at the non-arm64 changes, I note: > > - the UID16 config option *has* to be fixed. > > This is not really about arm64, the ugliness comes from every crazy > architecture. But we really need to fix this to have something like a > "HAVE_UID16" config option, and have the architectures that support > this select that option, so that the UID16 config option can just have > a "depends on HAVE_UID16". > > Please? Anybody? > > - same goes for DEBUG_KMEMLEAK and DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE. > > - very similar issues for the crazy mess of "#if defined()" in > kernel/sysctl.c. Can we please just add a SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE > config option, and have the architectures that want this just select > it?
I agree, they don't look nice. I'll post patches to clean them up.
-- Catalin
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