Re: [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups

Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:53:01 +0100


Hi!

> There is a lot of duplicated code among the 32 compatibility layers in our
> 64 bit architectures. I am proposing to considate this as much as
> possible. To that end, I first need to tidy up the relevant header files
> and make them as common as possible. Discussions with Dave Miller, Andi
> Kleen, and Anton Blanchard has led to the creation of compat32.h to
> contain all the 32 compatibility data types.
>
> This patch merely adds include/asm-generic/compat32.h which is the header
> information that is common to all the 32 bit compatibility code across all
> the architectures (except parisc as I don't pretend to understand that
> :-)).
>
> I will follow this up with patches for each architecture that I can. I

I'll be happy to test anything you have on
x86-64...

-- 
				Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...

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