Re: xtensa-cleanups-for-errno-and-ipc.patch added to -mm tree

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Thu Jun 30 2005 - 18:38:48 EST


On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:07:59 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dunnersdag 30 Juni 2005 03:13, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > From: Chris Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > I noticed this because I was doing some more ipc cleanups and I did the
> > original errno and ipc cleanups for other architectures, so it stuck out.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Zankel <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Actually, it would be better not to have sys_ipc or include/asm-xtensa/ipc.h
> at all but rather have all ipc syscalls as separate entry points.

Absolutely true and I think the patch xtensa-remove-old-syscalls.patch
that is in -mm also gets rid of sys_ipc. If that is the case, then
include/asm-xtensa/ipc.h can, indeed, be completely removed.

> IIRC, parisc is the only architecture to get this right so far, so please
> have a look there.

alpha, x86_64 also has this done.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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