From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: sfr@canb.auug.org.au, akpm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat functions for *at syscalls
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 00:44:15 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060207.004415.17761960.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0602061656560.3854@g5.osdl.org>
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:15:23 -0800 (PST)
> Oh f*ck, why do people do ugly code like this?
>
> That's just about the nastiest thing I've ever seen.
I totally agree.
>
> However, what I suspect David was actually suggesting was to just have
> some trivial for just the compat functions. You can generate them
> automatically based on
> - function name
> - signedness/unsignedness of each argument
> with some preprocessor hackery.
>
> So each architecture could have the following #defines:
Exactly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-07 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 23:56 Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07 0:01 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07 0:27 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07 1:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07 8:44 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-07 8:43 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07 9:39 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 10:56 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07 6:40 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07 9:31 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-07 13:29 ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-07 22:57 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07 9:25 ` Andi Kleen
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