Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 May 2004 16:34:31 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken |
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Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote: > > > diff -puN include/asm-i386/unistd.h~a include/asm-i386/unistd.h > > --- 25/include/asm-i386/unistd.h~a 2004-05-01 16:09:35.115389384 -0700 > > +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/unistd.h 2004-05-01 16:09:49.513200584 -0700 > > @@ -295,10 +295,6 @@ > > > > #define __syscall_return(type, res) \ > > do { \ > > - if ((unsigned long)(res) >= (unsigned long)(-125)) { \ > > - errno = -(res); \ > > - res = -1; \ > > - } \ > > return (type) (res); \ > > } while (0) > > Don't do that please. That will break all the user space > programs who use asm/unistd.h to define own system calls > (it is quite common). > > Make it conditional on __KERNEL__
err, that was just a "technology demonstration". Obviously there's a lot more involved. Such as fixing up all the other architectures and then killing off all the `errno' users.
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