On 9/18/2012 1:02 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat > support. The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for > PowerPC to do the u32->int sign extension. > > The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile and sparc is to > keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched > function declarations. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]> > Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]> > Cc: Alexander Viro <[email protected]> > Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> > --- > > Please note that the patch has only been compile-tested on sparc, tile > and powerpc (run-time tested on arm64).
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> [for tile] -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
