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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat
	syscalls
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:29:34 +0200
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To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:19:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> , Ian Munsie wrote:
>> From: Ian Munsie<imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
>>
>> This patch converts numerous trivial compat syscalls through the generic
>> kernel code to use the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE family of macros.
>
> Why? This just makes the code look uglier and the functions harder
> to grep for.


Because it makes them usable with syscall tracing.

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