Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I would strongly recommend that in the general case, you don't merge new
> > system calls unless the corresponding compat_ system call is
> > implemented.
> 
> Good point. 

It's a _damn_ good point, but I see we went ahead and merged
sys_epoll_pwait without it anyway -- despite the fact that it's
include/linux/eventpoll.h which contains the example of why we should
think first :)

I think I even threw together an untested implementation of
compat_sys_epoll_pwait() at one point to assist with that task, but it
didn't seem to help much.

-- 
dwmw2

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