Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] riscv: Delete asm/compat.h

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 12 2018 - 04:14:53 EST


On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:43PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> riscv does not enable CONFIG_COMPAT in default configurations:
> defconfig, allmodconfig and allnoconfig.
> Remove the asm/compat.h as it does not seem to add any value to
> the architecture without CONFIG_COMPAT.

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

>
> Now that time compat syscalls are being reused in non CONFIG_COMPAT
> modes, asm-generic/compat.h provides definitions for riscv 32 bit
> mode.
>
> Alternative would be to make compat_time.h to be conditional on
> CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME. But, since riscv does not does not need
> asm/compat.h, delete it instead.

Except that all this isn't relavant for this patch (and a horribly
bad idea, but Í'll reply to it separately).