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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat syscalls
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:30:47 +0900 (JST)
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> , 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.

I guess trace-syscall feature need to override COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE. but
It's only guess...


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