Regarding select() on PPC

[Sadashiiv, Halesh]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:26 AM
>To: Sadashiiv, Halesh
>Cc: Josh Boyer; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
>Subject: RE: Regarding select() on PPC
>
>On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:20 +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The below testcase requires to exit with setting errno as EINVAL, as
per
>> the man page.
>>
>> I tested this on ARM, I686, PPC64 it was fine, for the same on PPC32
it
>> used exit with errno set as EFAULT.
>>
>> On further investigation found there was some long obsolete code in
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c (function ppc_select()), which was
>> written in 2.2.0 kernel for PPC32 specific , which resulted in
EFAULT.
>>
>> This needs to be verified, I have proposed patch for PPC32, Please
check
>> the link
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/735922
>>
>
>I'm trying to sort out how obsolete it actually is and see if we can
>remove the whole thing.
>

Ok...once you verified please let me know.


>Your patch should be submitted to the linuxppc-dev mailing list btw.
>

Will do that.

>Ben.
>
>

Thanks,
Halesh


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