Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Frédéric Riss wrote:
> 
> I think Andi said that adding asmlinkage on the function pointers
> shouldn't harm ia64. If you prefer wrapper functions, one of the patches
> I sent ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/309 ) did that, but the casting
> it uses looks clumsy.

I'm more comfortable with that one, at least for now. It's guaranteed to 
not break ia64, at least. Also, it does what I think is right: do the 
calling convention conversion at the call-site rather than at a C compiler 
level.

Will apply a whitespace-fixed version,

		Linus