On Sat, 3 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > Some arch maintainers might want to take a look at their remaining > special versions. The cris version, for instance, only differs from > the generic version in that it takes the BKL. Is this still needed > these days? No, definitely not. That said, I think that in order to not break other architectures, and to make it even easier to do this transformation, how about we just mark the generic version with __weak? That way, odd architectures can just continue to call their own versions "sys_pipe()", and we don't break them unnecessarily. Linus -- 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
