On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:
> Linus, This is actually something I sent to Martin (and DaveM). The __UID16
> crap is because s390x and Sparc64 (and others?) do not want the highuid
> stuff except in very specific places - namely compat code. Just using
> CONFIG_UID16_SYSCALLS has the same bad side-effect as CONFIG_UID16 - all or
> nothing. In short, we want to build uid16.o with highuid translations, and
> a few other compat objects, but not everything. Ugly.
So why don't we just split it up into all the sub-options? So that you
have a smørgåsbord of real options to select from..
In other words, that __UID16 thing should be a real CONFIG_XXX option.
Linus
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