From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "Sadashiiv,
Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>,
paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:29:41 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1223612981.8157.146.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809240839.14902.arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 08:39 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support
> code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one.
> Even 11 years ago, all correctly built code should not have done this and
> could have easily been phased out. Nothing that was compiled later should
> actually try to use the old_select interface, and it would have been broken
> already on all ppc64 kernels with the syscall emulation layer.
>
> This patch brings the 32 bit compat ABI and the native 32 bit ABI for
> powerpc into a consistent state, by removing support for both the
> old_select system call number and the handler for it.
.../...
It's me or the patch is whitespaces damaged ?
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 4:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-23 7:16 Regarding select() on PPC Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-23 9:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 6:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-24 6:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 6:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-24 7:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 21:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-24 6:39 ` [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall Arnd Bergmann
2008-09-24 16:29 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-09-24 17:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-10 7:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-10 8:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-10 4:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-10-10 7:43 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-10 8:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-10 23:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-12 8:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-10-13 2:42 ` i2o driver work with AMCC 460EX? Ayman El-Khashab
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-24 9:12 [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-24 13:46 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-09-24 13:49 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-10-13 11:59 Sadashiiv, Halesh
2008-10-13 21:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-13 12:18 Sadashiiv, Halesh
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