From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Cc: "Sadashiiv, Halesh" <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:44:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810101044.41945.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18671.1794.694965.307451@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Friday 10 October 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>=20
> > Well, the point I made earlier ist that the native ppc32 path should
> > behave the same way as the compat ppc32 path. If we keep ppc_select
> > in one way or another, we should also have a compat wrapper for that,
> > right?
>=20
> No - we have other old system calls that don't exist at all on a
> 64-bit kernel but do on a 32-bit kernel. =A0We decided a long time ago
> that there was no point supporting really ancient 32-bit userland code
> on a 64-bit kernel. =A0That doesn't mean we need to rip out the support
> from the 32-bit kernel.
Ok, that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 8:44 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 [this message]
2008-10-10 4:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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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