Re: Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo

Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-28T23:10:00Z

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.