Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:27:39 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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       davem@davemloft.net, ralf@linux-mips.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
       willy@debian.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Consolidate compat_sys_waitid
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 08:23:41PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > The reason it isn't in Linus' tree yet is that it depends on the
> > is_compat_task() predicate which Andi vetoed out of Andrew's tree.
> > As a result, I haven't been able to merge any of the compat stuff
> > sitting in the PA tree.  A few more voices in favour of reintroducing
> > is_compat_task() would help.
> 
> Just change PA-RISC to not need is_compat_task?   It's not that
> difficult really, you just have to split the parts that need
> to know about this into separate functions and files.

Seconded.  Come on, folks, you *know* that is_compat_task() is an invitation
for massive fuckups by driver-writers...
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