Re: remove CONFIG_UID16

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Dec 17 2005 - 08:17:12 EST


On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 05:44:10AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> It seems noone noticed that CONFIG_UID16 was accidentially always
> disabled in the latest -mm kernels.
>
> Is there any reason against removing it completely?

Yes, it breaks backwards-compatilbity for not even that old binaries.

There's not way we're ever going to remove it.
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