[PATCH] PowerPC: remove broken vsyscall code

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Nov 7 09:18:00 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:09 -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 08:46 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 23:59 +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> > > Remove vsyscalls that were broken by the PowerPC generic TOD patch, also
> > > fixing the build breakage due to its bad rebase.
> > > 
> > > The patch has been tested on PPC32 only. I had to preserve the data that
> > > are made visible to userland via /proc/ppc64/systemcfg on PPC64, however
> > > now there are only zeroes there and their affect isn't known to me...
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov at ru.mvista.com>
> > 
> > There is simply no way this will happen !
> 
> I believe this is just a short-term fix so the ppc tod/rt code can be
> tested. I do plan on getting the ppc vsyscall working before we push any
> ppc tod changes to mainline.

Ok.

Ben.





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