[PATCH 12/40] x86, compat: convert ia32 layer to use

Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 20:36:21 EST 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:14:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any reason we need to differenciate between COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE and
> ARCH_COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE?  We don't need this for native system calls,
> so I can't see the reason to do it for compat system calls.
> 


I think we wanted that to keep the sys32_ prefixed based naming, to avoid
collisions with generic compat handler names.



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