Regarding select() on PPC

[Sadashiiv, Halesh]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 2:38 PM
>To: Sadashiiv, Halesh
>Cc: Arnd Bergmann; linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org
>Subject: RE: Regarding select() on PPC
>
>On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:46 +0530, Sadashiiv, Halesh wrote:
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt [mailto:benh at kernel.crashing.org]
>> >Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 12:00 PM
>> >To: Arnd Bergmann
>> >Cc: linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org; Sadashiiv, Halesh
>> >Subject: Re: Regarding select() on PPC
>> >
>> >On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:01 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> >> No, sorry, I don't have a git history that I can search for that.
>> >> I have a strong guess that it would be the end of the last century
>> >> though, probably before 2.3.48, since the comment in there already
>> >> refers to legacy binaries.
>> >
>> >Yeah, I'm keen to rip it out.
>>
>> Means argument checking in ppc_select() can be removed??
>> Than shall I post patch to linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
>
>ppc_select can probably be removed alltogether and ppc32_select too
>

Ok, directly sys_select() can be called instead of wrappers.

>Ben.
>
>

Halesh


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