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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Mark early_printk as asmlinkage

On Wed 2008-03-12 15:04:43, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >It's not explicitly marked as asmlinkage, but invoked
> >from x86_32
> >startup code with parameters on stack.
> >
> >No other architectures define early_printk and none of
> >them are affected
> >by this change, since defines asmlinkage as empty token.
>
> NAK.
>
> The regparm ABI for x86-32 uses parameters on the stack
> when the function is varadic (as it is here), so this is
> unnecessary.

I'd call asmlinkage kind of documentation, then. Not everyone is as
good with x86 abi as you are...

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