Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:15:38 +0200 | From | Rodolfo Giometti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) |
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 09:08:53AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 00:46 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > Just last question: I still don't well understand where I should > > declare the new compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() syscall... it's > > automagically defined by the system when CONFIG_COMPAT is enabled? :-o > > It isn't used on i386. On a 64-bit architecture, you need to put > compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() into the syscall table for 32-bit > processes. > > On PowerPC you do this by using COMPAT_SYS_SPU(time_pps_fetch) instead > of SYSCALL_SPU(..) in include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h. On x86_64 you'd put > it into the ia32_sys_call_table in arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S
I see.
Do you think I should add these functions into my patch, even if I cannot test it, or it's enought providing just the compat_sys_time_pps_fetch() function?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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