[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "arm64: fix building without CONFIG_UID16" has been added to staging queue

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Dec 15 21:47:36 UTC 2015


On Tuesday 15 December 2015 13:24:38 Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
> 
>     arm64: fix building without CONFIG_UID16
> 
> to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
> which can be found at:
> 
>     http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
> 
> This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt12.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
> reply to this email.
> 
> For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
> 


Note that this patch has caused regressions on one or two rarely used architectures
that only define CONFIG_UID16 but not CONFIG_HAVE_UID16.

I think it's safer to not backport it.

	Arnd




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