Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] compat: remove some compat entry points

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Dec 08 2020 - 10:07:14 EST


On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:45:54AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I had it there originally, I guess I should have left it there ;-)
>
> When I changed it, I was considering to do the same for additional
> syscalls that have very small differences now (timer_create,
> rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_sigpending, recvmsg, sendmsg) and use
> in_compat_syscall() there, but then I decided against that.
>
> In the end, I did like the split, as I found the smaller three
> patches that contain the real change easier to review, and
> it turns the larger patch at the end into a more obvious
> transformation.

Oh well, let's just keep the split as-is then.