Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:59:02 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 13:45 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I would strongly recommend that in the general case, you don't merge new > > system calls unless the corresponding compat_ system call is > > implemented. > > Good point.
It's a _damn_ good point, but I see we went ahead and merged sys_epoll_pwait without it anyway -- despite the fact that it's include/linux/eventpoll.h which contains the example of why we should think first :)
I think I even threw together an untested implementation of compat_sys_epoll_pwait() at one point to assist with that task, but it didn't seem to help much.
-- dwmw2
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