Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946424AbXBCJ6Z (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 04:58:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946425AbXBCJ6Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 04:58:24 -0500 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:46150 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946424AbXBCJ6Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Feb 2007 04:58:24 -0500 From: Andi Kleen To: =?utf-8?q?Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric_Riss?= Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 10:58:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Andrew Morton , Matt Domsch , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Eric Van Hensbergen , Trond Myklebust , Neil Brown , Stephen Hemminger , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jeff Garzik , "Eric W. Biederman" , Francois Romieu References: <200702031033.42940.ak@suse.de> <1170496175.31373.31.camel@funkylaptop> In-Reply-To: <1170496175.31373.31.camel@funkylaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702031058.13830.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 22 On Saturday 03 February 2007 10:49, Frédéric Riss wrote: > Was what I did in the initial patch: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/258 > > The issue is that the structure definition is used on multiple > architectures (for now ia64 and i386) which might used different calling > conventions. As Bjorn Helgaas pointed out, ia64 already has such wrapper > functions. I agree that the casting isn't the nicest thing, but I prefer > that to writing asm stubs. Define a efilinkage macro then that expands to nothing on ia64 Probably asmlinkage would work already, syscall_linkage as used on ia64 doesn't seem to affect function pointers. -Andi - 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/