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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:53:42 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: compat_sys_adjtimex
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To: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
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On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:03:43 -0700
Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com> wrote:

> This system call seems to be duplicated in many architectures. Here's
> a patch which moves it to kernel/compat.c
> 
> We didn't touch ppc64, because it seems to be different. We've tested
> this on ia64 with LTP.

PPC64 just wants some kind of callback invoked right after the
do_adjtimex() call, it should be possible to provide a "do-nothing"
macro in linux/compat.h that ppc can override in asm/compat.h