Re: [PATCH v2] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2011-12-09 Thread Arnd Bergmann
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

Re: [PATCH v2] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Morton
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