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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add retval_value helper (updated)
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On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:58:41 +0530
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:

> From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> 
> Add the return_value() macro to extract the return value in an
> architecture agnostic manner, given the pt_regs.
> 
> Other architecture maintainers may want to add similar helpers.

return_value() is quite a generic-sounding thing.

box:/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-rc4> grep -r return_value . | wc -l
66


How about regs_return_value()?