RE: [Compatibilty patch] sigtimedwait

From: Zou, Nanhai
Date: Thu Dec 09 2004 - 19:53:22 EST


compat_siginfo_t is a better name.
However the structure siginfo_32t is used in other places in 5 arches
expect ppc64.
I think rename them in this patch will make the patch too big and not so
straightforward.
Maybe we can rename it in another separate patch.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Rothwell [mailto:sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 7:33 PM
> To: Zou, Nanhai
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; akpm@xxxxxxxx; Luck, Tony;
ak@xxxxxxx;
> ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; paulus@xxxxxxxxxx; schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx;
> Davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Compatibilty patch] sigtimedwait
>
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:48:56 +0800 "Zou, Nanhai" <nanhai.zou@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >
> >
> > This patch also merges all 6 32 bit layer sys_rt_sigtimedwait in
IA64,
> > X86_64, PPC64, Sparc64, S390 and MIPS into 1 compat_rt_sigtimedwait.
>
> I think compat_siginfo_t/struct compat_siginfo should be the preferred
> name for the structure like all the other comptibility types.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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