linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions

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Date:	Sun, 4 Feb 2007 10:29:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frédéric Riss <frederic.riss@...il.com>
cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@...il.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc7: known regressions



On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Frédéric Riss wrote:
> 
> I think Andi said that adding asmlinkage on the function pointers
> shouldn't harm ia64. If you prefer wrapper functions, one of the patches
> I sent ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/30/309 ) did that, but the casting
> it uses looks clumsy.

I'm more comfortable with that one, at least for now. It's guaranteed to 
not break ia64, at least. Also, it does what I think is right: do the 
calling convention conversion at the call-site rather than at a C compiler 
level.

Will apply a whitespace-fixed version,

		Linus