[PATCH] _syscall6 for 2.6

[Olaf Hering]

 On Tue, Nov 25, Franz Sirl wrote:

> At 14:05 25.11.2003, Olaf Hering wrote:
>
> >This patch implements _syscall6 for ppc64, it is required for klibc.
>
> Hi Olaf,
>
> why do we need this in a 2.6 kernel? Can't we call everything directly now
> in-kernel? And using this _syscallN stuff in userspace is deprecated AFAIK
> and if there was some consensus across architectures, we could remove them
> completely.

klibc includes the kernel headers, and uses the syscall6 macro. How
should it be done? Maybe we can update klibc to use something else. Is
there example code?

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