From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:09:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061028230959.GU5591@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028225314.GD3243@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:53:14PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Why can't we have a compat_copy_siginfo_from_user() (and
> > compat_copy_siginfo_to_user() for that matter) defined in
> > kernel/compat.c for all architectures? The user32 convention really
> > grates for some reason ;-)
> >
>
> Coming in a later patch... This is just fixing one of the places where
> compat signals changed generic code in signal.c
OK. It just doesn't make too much sense to me to add this copy_compat
code to a half-dozen architectures, only to take it out again in a later
patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 22:37 Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo Kyle McMartin
2006-10-28 22:47 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-28 22:53 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-28 23:09 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-10-28 23:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-28 23:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-30 15:46 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-30 15:59 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-31 7:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 7:23 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-11-01 14:24 ` Kyle McMartin
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