Re: [PATCH] Many groups patch.

From: David S. Miller
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 04:16:56 EST


On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 12:09:19 +1000
Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sure. First step is to put this function in kernel/compat.c where it
> belongs. The identical function is already in kernel/uid16.c, but
> defining CONFIG_UID16 does not work for these platforms (which only
> want 16-bit uids for the 32-bit syscalls).

This is correct. To be more precise, we also need it for the compat
ABI binary format handlers too (elf32, etc.)
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