Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] m68k: Wire up direct ipc calls

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Sep 17 2015 - 11:18:59 EST


Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> You mean that we should drop "select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION",
>> but we can't do that because an indirect call through sys_ipc() would
>> still need it when dispatching to sys_{sem,shm,msg}ctl()?
>
> Yes. But all architectures that currently use both sys_ipc and
> ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION would benefit from decoupling it when they
> add the direct syscalls.

Do we currently have architectures that use both sys_ipc and the direct
syscalls, where keeping ipc_parse_version() in the direct syscalls is required?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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