* Re: xtensa-cleanups-for-errno-and-ipc.patch added to -mm tree
2005-06-30 11:07 ` xtensa-cleanups-for-errno-and-ipc.patch added to -mm tree Arnd Bergmann
@ 2005-06-30 23:36 ` Stephen Rothwell
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From: Stephen Rothwell @ 2005-06-30 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Arnd Bergmann; +Cc: chris, akpm, linux-kernel
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:07:59 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Dunnersdag 30 Juni 2005 03:13, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
> >
> > I noticed this because I was doing some more ipc cleanups and I did the
> > original errno and ipc cleanups for other architectures, so it stuck out.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
>
> Actually, it would be better not to have sys_ipc or include/asm-xtensa/ipc.h
> at all but rather have all ipc syscalls as separate entry points.
Absolutely true and I think the patch xtensa-remove-old-syscalls.patch
that is in -mm also gets rid of sys_ipc. If that is the case, then
include/asm-xtensa/ipc.h can, indeed, be completely removed.
> IIRC, parisc is the only architecture to get this right so far, so please
> have a look there.
alpha, x86_64 also has this done.
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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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