Re: [PATCH] x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 06 January 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:

> You'll still need some ad-croc ifdef-ery at the call site to make it use
> the correct prototype (unless you can come up with some clever way of making
> the two use the same prototype, possibly by passing a dummy argument on
> some architectures...

The call site is the sys_call_table, and user space already has different
calling conventions here, which is the whole reason for this mess.

	Arnd <><
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