Re: Drop IPC_OLD for direct ipc syscalls?

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Sun Sep 20 2015 - 09:28:45 EST


Hi Andreas,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Should I postpone wiring up the direct ipc syscalls on m68k (and thus renumber
>> __NR_membarrier) until the above is resolved, or can they go in in v4.3?
>
> If you wire up the direct ipc calls know you create an ABI that is
> harder to get rid of.

That's what I was mostly worried about.
Thanks for confirming!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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