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

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Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:05:58 +0100
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, drepper@...hat.com
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

> From: Russell King
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21
> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 22:03:27 +0000
[]
> However:
>
> sys_foo(int a, int c, unsigned long long b, unsigned long long d)
>
> is entirely reasonable and leaves us with spare room for one additional
> 32-bit arg to be passed.
>
>> Is that actually written anywhere, and does anyone bother to check?
>
> Mostly mailing list archives I'd guess.  As far as anyone bothering
> to check, that's me when I'm aware of new syscalls... which typically
> happens a long time after the syscalls have been introduced on x86
> etc.

Why not to have "the most large argument first" rule here?

  sys_bar(largest,..., larger,..., smaller,..., small);

Put it in Documentation/ABI/README and bother only, when compiller
will bark on -mm tree.

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