Re: [parisc-linux] warning: minor abi change

[Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>]

Grant Grundler wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:53:34PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
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>>Instead of adding (void *) to each comparison,
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>This is just a temporary workaround and I have no plans of committing
>any (void *) casts to fix this problem.
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>>you could add a kernel
>>version of __canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare:
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>>__canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare:
>>	bv %r0(%r2)
>>	copy %r26,%r28
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>>or for PA 2.0
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>>__canonicalize_funcptr_for_compare:
>>        bve (%r2)
>>	copy %r26,%r28
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>>I think there was a possible solution along these lines posted on the list
>>a few months ago (joel?).
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Yes I test succesfully (as w-a) some similar solution. (see: 
<http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2003-May/019982.html>) 
but I doubt that it is the right way ...

>Ok.  I didn't see it when trolling the mail archive.
>No matter, I'll try it.
>Anyone have an opinion on which arch/parisc file this should go in?
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... arch/parisc/lib/fptr.c seems well the right place (what do you think?)
but the rest of EXPORT_SYMBOL was just 'to make it compile' but do not 
sound (please don't ask me to decribe this sound :) ) to me the way it 
have to be (sorry I was waiting more guidance to submit more complete 
work :( )

hth,
    Joel