Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262089AbVE1HHX (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 03:07:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262358AbVE1HHW (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 03:07:22 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34182 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262089AbVE1HHS (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 03:07:18 -0400 Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 08:07:14 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Zankel Subject: Re: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1 Message-ID: <20050528070714.GB17005@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Zankel References: <20050525134933.5c22234a.akpm@osdl.org> <200505272313.20734.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505272313.20734.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1073 Lines: 23 On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 11:13:19PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Middeweken 25 Mai 2005 22:49, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > - New Xtensa architecture: Tensilica Xtensa CPU series. > > I noticed this has another copy of all the backwards compatibility > syscalls in its arch/*/kernel/syscall.c file. This doesn't make > sense for a new architecture added to the tree. > > Chris, are there any existing binaries that rely on your implementations > of old_mmap, sys_fork, sys_vfork, sys_olduname or sys_ipc and need to > work with future kernels? Otherwise, you should probably drop these. > For sys_ipc, you would need to add the subcalls directly to the table, > like parisc does. We should do that either way. If people have existing binaries relying on broken thing before submitting ports for review it's their fault. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/