Excerpts from Benjamin Herrenschmidt's message of Fri May 14 09:54:56 +1000 2010: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 17:43 +1000, Ian Munsie wrote: > > From: Ian Munsie <imun...@au1.ibm.com> > > > > Some architectures have unusual symbol names and the generic code to > > match the symbol name with the function name for the syscall metadata > > will fail. For example, symbols on PPC64 start with a period and the > > generic code will fail to match them. > > > > This patch splits out the match logic into a standalone weak function > > that can be overridden on archs with unusual symbol names. > > > > Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imun...@au1.ibm.com> > > --- > > Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> > --- > > Ian, I assume you will implement the support for the "special" ppc_* > syscalls via a subsequent patch and not a respin of this one right ? > > Cheers, > Ben.
Yes, that will be in a separate patch or two. Cheers, -Ian _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
