Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

[Davide Libenzi]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote:

> 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.

Damn! I always forget. Doing it right now ...


- Davide


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