From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, carlos@baldric.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: compat-signal-noarch-2004-01-29.patch again
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 05:57:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040320055753.27517d88.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040319223744.1f003f9f.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:37:44 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 21:49:49 -0800
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This patch continues to hang around at Morton manor. last time it was
> > > discussed Andi had issues with it and thing petered out.
> > >
> > > Can we please wrap this up one ay or the other?
> >
> > My only issue was the exporting of is_compat_task() to generic linux/compat.h
> > If that is fixed (the code that does the is_compat_task is moved to arch/*
> > again) then the change is fine and I would also likely use it for x86-64.
>
> Cannot you define HAVE_ARCH_IS_COMPAT_TASK?
No. The problem is not in a particular implementation of this for a specific
architecture, but in the generic design - it is the wrong direction and will
cause hard to fix later design problems.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-20 7:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-20 5:49 compat-signal-noarch-2004-01-29.patch again Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 4:15 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-20 6:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 4:57 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-03-20 7:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 13:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-20 20:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-20 20:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-03-20 20:31 ` James Bottomley
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