Re: [patch] (2nd try) add epoll compat code to kernel/compat.c ...

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Feb 13 2007 - 05:11:41 EST


On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 23:26:42 -0800 (PST) Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ARM-OABI also defines them, dunno why. Rmk?

I suspect that OABI stands for old ABI and the alignment of 64 bit
quantities changed at some point. I am pretty sure that arm is only
32bit, but I assume that they need backward compatibility for the old
ABI's alignment.

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