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Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:29:41 +1100
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On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 08:39 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support
> code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one.
> Even 11 years ago, all correctly built code should not have done this and
> could have easily been phased out. Nothing that was compiled later should
> actually try to use the old_select interface, and it would have been broken
> already on all ppc64 kernels with the syscall emulation layer.
> 
> This patch brings the 32 bit compat ABI and the native 32 bit ABI for
> powerpc into a consistent state, by removing support for both the
> old_select system call number and the handler for it.

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It's me or the patch is whitespaces damaged ?

Cheers,
Ben.