On Friday 09 December 2011 13:48:52 Andrew Morton wrote:
> What would we need to do to get all architectures using the new
> interfaces, and remove __ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC?
We would change the various compat_sys_ipc functions (mips, powerpc,
s390, sparc, x86) to call the new functions instead o
On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:29:07 -0500
Chris Metcalf wrote:
> When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to
> be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and
> in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by
> compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for