[PATCH] audit.h: remove the macro AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB definition

[Li RongQing]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM,  <roy.qing.li at gmail.com> wrote:
>> From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
>>
>> After 2f9783669 [ARM: 7412/1: audit: use only AUDIT_ARCH_ARM regardless
>> of endianness], no kernel user uses this macro;
>>
>> Keeping this macro, only makes the compiling old version audit [before
>> changeset 931 Improve ARM and AARCH64 support] success, but the audit
>> program can not work with the kernel after 2f9783669 still,
>> since no syscall entry is enabled for AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB in kernel.
>>
>> so remove it to force to use the latest audit program
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> other workaround is to define AUDIT_ARCH_ARMEB as AUDIT_ARCH_ARM,
>> but it seems very strange
>>
>>  include/uapi/linux/audit.h | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> Since this #define lives in the user visible headers I don't want to
> remove it and risk causing a userspace breakage.  Leaving the #define
> in the header, even if it is unused by modern userspace, is harmless.
>
it is harm, when I compile the audit-2.3.2 for a arm machine, whose linux kernel
is 3.14; no compile error, but audit does not work;  since the audit is



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