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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	arnd@arndb.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, acme@redhat.com,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:32:49 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263526369.724.399.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100114093322.GA3484@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 09:33 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On ARM, we used to use socketcall exclusively.  We've since added all
> the direct socket and IPC calls to our syscall table as part of the
> big EABI shakeup.  They certainly get used on EABI, whereas OABI has
> a choice.
> 
> They were made available in two stages - first the numbers were
> reserved
> and the calls were added to the call table.  A few years later, we
> exposed the syscall numbers in unistd.h.
> 
> It's now been almost 4 years since this was done, and there have been
> no bug reports. 

Agreed. It's definitely a switch we should do on powerpc. I'll look into
it after LCA.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-15  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-26 10:39 sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not? Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-26 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-14  4:20   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-14  4:20     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-14  4:28     ` David Miller
2010-01-14  6:59       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-14  9:33         ` Russell King
2010-01-15  3:32           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-01-19  7:21         ` Paul Mundt
2010-01-19  7:21           ` Paul Mundt
2010-01-19 23:14           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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