Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again)

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 15:22:17 EST

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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:27:06 -0800

>>>>> On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 08:48:13 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:

     Linus> Architecture maintainers, can you comment on how easy/hard it
     Linus> is to do the same thing on your architectures? I _assume_
     Linus> it's trivial (akin to the three-liner register state change
     Linus> in i386/kernel/signal.c).

   It's not trivial on ia64:

It was really easy on Sparc.
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