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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702091442230.2786@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:50:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

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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