Re: [PATCH 6/8] remove duplicated sys_open32() code from 64bit archs

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Aug 23 2005 - 16:49:57 EST


On Dinsdag 23 August 2005 22:43, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 64 bit architectures all implement their own compatibility sys_open(),
> when in fact the difference is simply not forcing the O_LARGEFILE
> flag. So use the a common function instead.

> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c 2005-08-23 20:22:33.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c 2005-08-23 21:00:19.000000000 +0200
> @@ -971,28 +971,7 @@ long sys32_kill(int pid, int sig)
>
> asmlinkage long sys32_open(const char __user * filename, int flags, int mode)
> {
> - char * tmp;
> - int fd, error;

Please don't leave the functions inside of the architecture specific code.
The code is common enough to be shared, so just put a new compat_sys_open()
function into fs/compat.c.

I'm also not sure wether s390, mips and/or parisc need to use the
same function instead of the standard sys_open().

Arnd <><
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