Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:29:28 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Riss?= <frederic.riss@gmail.com>
cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
       Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
       Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Fr?d?ric Riss wrote:
> 
> I think Andi said that adding asmlinkage on the function pointers
> shouldn't harm ia64. If you prefer wrapper functions, one of the patches
> I sent ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/309 ) did that, but the casting
> it uses looks clumsy.

I'm more comfortable with that one, at least for now. It's guaranteed to 
not break ia64, at least. Also, it does what I think is right: do the 
calling convention conversion at the call-site rather than at a C compiler 
level.

Will apply a whitespace-fixed version,

		Linus
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