Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 May 2008 11:40:18 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] unify sys_pipe implementation |
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On Sat, 3 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Some arch maintainers might want to take a look at their remaining > special versions. The cris version, for instance, only differs from > the generic version in that it takes the BKL. Is this still needed > these days?
No, definitely not.
That said, I think that in order to not break other architectures, and to make it even easier to do this transformation, how about we just mark the generic version with __weak?
That way, odd architectures can just continue to call their own versions "sys_pipe()", and we don't break them unnecessarily.
Linus
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