Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines.

From	Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines.
Date	2017-06-14 14:50 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
>> On 06/02/2017 03:10 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>>
>>> Can we please fix these conditionals so that only those
>>> relevant to Linux remain?
>>
>> I was going for the minimal change since this is dusty-deck code that I
>> can't practically test, but I have no objection to your more thorough
>> approach.  I don't see anything I would do differently.
>
> Yes, I think I'd just prefer to rip out the stale stuff, and remove
> the "#ifdef linux" entirely.
>
> It's not like the kernel wants non-linux headers, and I don't see
> non-linux users using the kernel headers either.

Christoph's patch doesn't seem to have been applied yet.  Is there
anything I can do to help?

zw

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Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific predefines. Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> - 2017-06-14 14:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] uapi/linux/a.out.h: don't use deprecated system-specific  predefines. Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-06-14 17:20 +0200

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