I have a tiny problem. I need to activate AUDITSYSCALL in kernel. Well everything seems ok. I see in menuconfig this:

depends on: ( CONFIG_AUDIT && ( CONFIG_X86 || CONFIG_PPC || CONFIG_PPC64 || CONFIG_S390 || CONFIG_IA64 || CONFIG_UML || CONFIG_SPARC64 || CONFIG_SUPERH )) && ( CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX )

And here is the problem. I want to CC (cross-compile) the kernel form arm and i don't see any CONFIG_ARM there in depends.

What can i do?
What if i activate X86 for ex and than compile for arm?
What does this AUDITSYSCALL does exactly?

THANKS A LOT! AND PLEASE HELP.

There are some older posts stating that AUDIT is broken for some platforms and probably there was some reason not to include it. However, you may try if you really want. You'll need to find the dependency description and change it to add also arm: || CONFIG_ARM

However, DO NOT try to configure for X86 and compile for ARM. First, it will quite likely fail quite close to the beginning of the complication. Secondly, even if it passes somehow, it is unlikely to work. Configure for the platform you want to compile on.

Thanks a lot man. I tried to compile kernel after patching Kconfig to add || ARM and died with this "last message":

/home/mmes/builds/2011_01_06_with/build/linux/kernel/auditsc.c: In function 'audit_alloc':
/home/mmes/builds/2011_01_06_with/build/linux/kernel/auditsc.c:890: error: 'TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/mmes/builds/2011_01_06_with/build/linux/kernel/auditsc.c:890: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/mmes/builds/2011_01_06_with/build/linux/kernel/auditsc.c:890: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[6]: *** [kernel/auditsc.o] Error 1
make[5]: *** [kernel] Error 2
make[4]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[3]: *** [linux.compile] Error 2
make[2]: *** [linux.buildlogger] Error 2
make[1]: *** [linux.build] Error 2
make: *** [linux] Error 2

Do you know what this thing does?

Well, this value is not defined on the ARM architecture, one might do that asap ?
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/ident?i=TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT

So this won't work in arm. This is my final conclusion.

I really hope it is bad conclusion, someone just needs to fix it as usual in the open source world. To be honest I would also like to use this feature on my Maemo, MeeGo ARM phone and that is why I realized topic...

It would be nice to figure it out really.

Not supported on arm.
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