Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] arm64: Make basic compat_* types always available

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Jul 12 2018 - 04:20:38 EST


On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:42:41PM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
> As we repurpose more compat syscalls to be used in non CONFIG_COMPAT
> usecases as part of solving y2038, we need to make these basic types
> available unconditionally.

NAK. Compat code is for foreign ABIs. If this code is going to
be used elsewhere it should not be named compat_ and not be in
compat.h.