On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 07:55:44PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Add a generic implementation of the ipc demultiplexer syscall. Except for > s390 and sparc64 all implementations of the sys_ipc are nearly identical. > > There are slight differences in the types of the parameters, where mips > and powerpc as the only 64-bit architectures with sys_ipc use unsigned long > for the "third" argument as it gets casted to a pointer later, while it > traditionally is an "int" like most other paramters. frv goes even further > and uses unsigned long for all parameters execept for "ptr" which is a pointer > type everywhere. The change from int to unsigned long for "third" and back > to "int" for the others on frv should be fine due to the in-register calling > conventions for syscalls (we already had a similar issue with the generic > sys_ptrace), but I'd prefer to have the arch maintainers looks over this > in details. >From an ARM perspective, it looks like nothing actually changes, so... Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html