Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:15:47 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, akpm@osdl.org, carlos@parisc-linux.org,
       willy@parisc-linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH 1/5] Add generic compat_siginfo_t
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:01:41AM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> I agree, I'm really just trying to shepard this home so we don't have
> to maintain it out of tree. I'm not overly attached to the code, if
> I can make parisc64 work with your compat signal bits, I'll be
> just as happy.
> 
> The one thing from this patchset I'd like to keep is the is_compat_task()
> as it does provide nice cleanups 

Yes, the is_compat_task helper is a nice thing to have.  I haven't
needed it for the signal bits I've done yet, but it's also useful
elsewhere.  But IIRC someone vehemently opposed it in the last round
of discussion.

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