Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: remove bogus ppc_select syscall

2021-03-04 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:24 PM Christophe Leroy wrote: > Le 04/03/2021 à 16:17, Arnd Bergmann a écrit : > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:51 PM Christophe Leroy > > wrote: > >> --- > >> First version was in 2008, at that time it was rejected, see > >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: remove bogus ppc_select syscall

2021-03-04 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 04/03/2021 à 16:17, Arnd Bergmann a écrit : On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:51 PM Christophe Leroy wrote: From: Arnd Bergmann The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one. Even 24 years a

Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/32: remove bogus ppc_select syscall

2021-03-04 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:51 PM Christophe Leroy wrote: > > From: Arnd Bergmann > > The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support > code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one. > Even 24 years ago, all correctly built code should not hav

[PATCH v2] powerpc/32: remove bogus ppc_select syscall

2021-03-04 Thread Christophe Leroy
From: Arnd Bergmann The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one. Even 24 years ago, all correctly built code should not have done this and could have easily been phased out. Nothing that was