On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:19:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > , Ian Munsie wrote: >> From: Ian Munsie<imunsie at au1.ibm.com> >> >> This patch converts numerous trivial compat syscalls through the generic >> kernel code to use the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE family of macros. > > Why? This just makes the code look uglier and the functions harder > to grep for. Because it makes them usable with syscall tracing.