From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:39:37 -0700 (PDT) > Heh. This is what x86 has done since day#1. I wonder why other > architectures wouldn't have copied that part.. I passed it around in a register because nothing outside of the trap return and signal handling path needed access to it :-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html