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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	paulus@samba.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Wire up some more syscalls
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:15:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179116138.18580.2.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1AF532FF-A994-47AF-9394-5DFFC6C8FDA1@kernel.crashing.org>

On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 22:55 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> Just out of interest, what makes a syscall COMPAT_SYS_SPU vs  
> SYSCALL_SPU?

It's the same as the difference between COMPAT_SYS and SYSCALL.

The _SPU suffix just means that the SPU can use the (native) syscall. 

The COMPAT_ prefix means that there's a compat function to call instead
of calling the native one directly for 32-bit code.

-- 
dwmw2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-14  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-14  3:50 [PATCH] [POWERPC] Wire up some more syscalls Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-14  3:55 ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-14  4:13   ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-05-14  4:15   ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-05-14 13:58     ` Kumar Gala
2007-05-14 14:06       ` David Woodhouse
2007-05-14  9:16 ` Arnd Bergmann

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