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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: drepper@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pselect/ppoll support on x86_64
Date: 3 Jul 2006 12:40:05 +0200
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:40:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060703104005.GB5415@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151920035.3000.88.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:47:15AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> This adds support for the pselect and ppoll system calls on x86_64. 
> 
> Andi suggests that it might be too late for the 2.6.18 merge window -- I
> disagree. I consider it a bug fix, since I don't think we intend x86_64
> to be a secondary architecture and lag behind i386 and PowerPC in its
> system call support. Andi's TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK implementation is
> heavily based on the i386 version, where it's had lots of testing
> already.

I've got burned badly by these patches last time and the 2.6.18 merge
window is closed.

I'll add them for testing, but it's 2.6.19 material.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-03  9:41 [PATCH 1/2] Support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK on x86_64 David Woodhouse
2006-07-03  9:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] pselect/ppoll support " David Woodhouse
2006-07-03 10:40   ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-07-03 10:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] Support TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK " Andrew Morton
2006-07-03 10:39   ` David Woodhouse
2006-07-03 14:16   ` Ulrich Drepper

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