Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Sat Feb 03 2007 - 04:59:33 EST
On Saturday 03 February 2007 10:49, FrÃdÃric Riss wrote:
> Was what I did in the initial patch:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/258
>
> The issue is that the structure definition is used on multiple
> architectures (for now ia64 and i386) which might used different calling
> conventions. As Bjorn Helgaas pointed out, ia64 already has such wrapper
> functions. I agree that the casting isn't the nicest thing, but I prefer
> that to writing asm stubs.
Define a efilinkage macro then that expands to nothing on ia64
Probably asmlinkage would work already, syscall_linkage as used on ia64 doesn't
seem to affect function pointers.
-Andi
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