Re: [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:38:10AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I think it would be better to have a consistent behavior across
> architectures, so /something/ should be changed. On x86, the unused
> sys32_personality function can probable just be removed, if nothing
> else.
> 
> If we can get everyone to agree with the x86 way of handling this,
> we can also remove all the special cases for sys32_personality in the
> other architectures.

Yes, this should be common over architectures.  Anyway, I expect there
to be some discussion until we've reached that point, so for now I'll
rebase patches 5 and 6 to not require this patch, and will send one
to kill the unused x86 implementation.  Whatever is the final outcome
can be implemented on top.

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