Re: remove CONFIG_UID16

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:18:07PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

You are right.

Sorry, this was a dumb idea

cu
Adrian

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