Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755227AbYHIAiU (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:38:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751821AbYHIAiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:38:11 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:46259 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751861AbYHIAiK (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:38:10 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] checkpoint/restart: x86 support From: Dave Hansen To: Oren Laadan Cc: Arnd Bergmann , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Theodore Tso , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <489CD0F9.9060603@cs.columbia.edu> References: <20080807224033.FFB3A2C1@kernel> <200808081409.30591.arnd@arndb.de> <489CAC70.7090809@cs.columbia.edu> <200808090029.28286.arnd@arndb.de> <489CD0F9.9060603@cs.columbia.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:38:06 -0700 Message-Id: <1218242286.19082.62.camel@nimitz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 658 Lines: 17 On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 19:04 -0400, Oren Laadan wrote: > > struct pt_regs is part of the kernel ABI, it will not change. > > I'm in favor about keeping the format identical between the variations of > each architecture. Note, however, that "struct pt_regs" won't do because it > may change with these variations. "Part of the kernel ABI" makes it sound to me like it won't change. Who's right here? :) -- Dave -- 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/