I agree. While porting to zeta (see previous mail), i've had a look at some
different arch/ implementation of switch_to(), and i have not been able to
understand why the third arg was given.
Anyway, I don't use it, and I'm happy with this new interface.
Thomas
On Monday 11 February 2002 14:29, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Do we really care about the third arg to the switch_to() macro?
>
> IMHO it would be nice to define the architecture context switch
> interface like
>
> void switch_to(struct thread_info *from, struct thread_info *to);
>
> because we don't really seem to do much with the third arg, AFAICS.
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