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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Miguel Botón" <mboton.lkml@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:30:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801061630.10265.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26046.1199598953@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Sunday 06 January 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> You'll still need some ad-croc ifdef-ery at the call site to make it use
> the correct prototype (unless you can come up with some clever way of making
> the two use the same prototype, possibly by passing a dummy argument on
> some architectures...

The call site is the sys_call_table, and user space already has different
calling conventions here, which is the whole reason for this mess.

	Arnd <><

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-06 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-05 23:59 [PATCH] x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification Miguel Botón
2008-01-06  0:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-01-06  1:00   ` Miguel Botón
2008-01-06  1:20   ` Miguel Botón
2008-01-06  5:55     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-06 15:30       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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