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Subject: Re: Regarding select() on PPC
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:24 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 08:45:52PM +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
> >
> >
> >The issue is found only in PPC32.
> >
> >Please let me if the patch is applicable.
> 
> Well, no not really.  Mostly because of procedural issues than anything
> else.  Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel directory.
> 
> Also, there is a comment above this function that eludes to some issues
> with select on ppc32.  You might want to ask the overall PowerPC maintainer
> if that issue still exits.

I have only half of this thread, what is the problem ?

Ben.