On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:37:30PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Every 32-on-64 arch (except parisc) was implementing effectively the
> same sys32_rt_sigqueueinfo. Add a generic implementation taken from
> x86_64 and add it to kernel/compat.c, which required the addition of
> copy_siginfo_from_user32 on mips and powerpc. sparc64 had a sufficient
> implementation for this purpose, so crib it for both those platforms.

Why can't we have a compat_copy_siginfo_from_user() (and
compat_copy_siginfo_to_user() for that matter) defined in
kernel/compat.c for all architectures?  The user32 convention really
grates for some reason ;-)

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