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From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add retval_value helper (updated)
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 02:13:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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()?

Yes, that sounds fine too.

Ananth