linux-kernel - Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

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Message-Id: <1171058342.29713.136.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:59:02 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drepper@...hat.com,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

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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