linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: ioport

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Message-Id: <200801061630.10265.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:30:09 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Miguel Botón <mboton.lkml@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification

On Sunday 06 January 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu 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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