Re: [PATCH] 2.5.41 s390 (8/8): 16 bit uid/gids.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Tim Hockin wrote:
> Linus, This is actually something I sent to Martin (and DaveM).  The __UID16
> crap is because s390x and Sparc64 (and others?) do not want the highuid
> stuff except in very specific places - namely compat code.  Just using
> CONFIG_UID16_SYSCALLS has the same bad side-effect as CONFIG_UID16 - all or
> nothing.  In short, we want to build uid16.o with highuid translations, and
> a few other compat objects, but not everything.  Ugly.

So why don't we just split it up into all the sub-options? So that you 
have a smørgåsbord of real options to select from..

In other words, that __UID16 thing should be a real CONFIG_XXX option.

		Linus