From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, "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: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 10:58:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810121058.16375.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223680673.8157.166.camel@pasglop>
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > -SYSX_SPU(sys_select,ppc32_select,ppc_select)
> > +SYSX_SPU(sys_select,ppc32_select,sys_select)
>
> Ok, so you want to keep compat with the old stuff. Note that we still
> have this weird thing that on 64-bit kernels, we don't provide this.
This change makes the funny wrapper only active for the "old" select
number on native ppc32, which is not active on ppc64 or compat32,
while any programs using the "new" select number, i.e. any binay you
will ever encounter in practice, now gets the standard semantics.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-12 8:58 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
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 [this message]
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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