Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Disable compat cruft on ppc64le v2

On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:08:48 +0000
Christophe Leroy [off-list ref] wrote:

On 08/28/2019 10:30 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

quoted

With endian switch disabled by default the ppc64le compat supports
ppc32le only which is something next to nobody has binaries for.

Less code means less bugs so drop the compat stuff.

I am not particularly sure about the best way to resolve the llseek
situation. I don't see anything in the syscal tables making it
32bit-only so I suppose it should be available on 64bit as well.

This is tested on ppc64le top of  

Really ?

Really. It boots with the unused variable. It might depend on some
config options or gcc features if unused variables are fatal.

Thanks

Michal