On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:55:48PM +0300, Pavel Kiryukhin wrote: > could anybody give some comments on the following code in 2.4.x - > 2.6.1. > > sys_sched_getaffinity [kernel/sched.c] on success returns the size of > cpumask_t, which is obviously positive value. > > while > > sys32_sched_getaffinity [arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c] expect 0 as > successful return from sys_sched_getaffinity. Wrong question. The question should be why does the MIPS kernel not use the generic 32-bit compatibility functions? It now does, I just changed that. Ralf