Re: [PATCH] UML - support checkstack

From: Jeff Dike
Date: Mon Aug 14 2006 - 23:16:31 EST


On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:45:48AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > SUBARCH has a different meaning here. For UML, it's the underlying,
> > host, architecture, not a variant architecture like Voyager.
>
> Right, so it sounds like this breaks Voyager. Which I think means we
> ought to pass ARCH and SUBARCH and do the right thing inside
> checkstack.

There is no use of the symbol SUBARCH in arch/i386. While this may be
jarring to people who know and love Voyager, it doesn't break
anything.

We could do what you suggest, but that sounds unnecessary.

I'd rather either
leave things as they are
rename SUBARCH

Jeff
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