From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265265AbUETUR5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 16:17:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265264AbUETUR4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 16:17:56 -0400 Received: from palrel13.hp.com ([156.153.255.238]:14739 "EHLO palrel13.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265265AbUETURz (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 16:17:55 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16557.4709.694265.314748@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:17:41 -0700 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixing sendfile on 64bit architectures In-Reply-To: <20040520203532.A11902@infradead.org> References: <26879984$108499340940abaf81679ba6.07529629@config22.schlund.de> <16556.19979.951743.994128@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040519234106.52b6db78.davem@redhat.com> <16556.65456.624986.552865@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040520120645.3accf048.akpm@osdl.org> <16557.1651.307484.282000@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040520203532.A11902@infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2004 20:35:32 +0100, Christoph Hellwig said: Christoph> IMHO this is exactly the wrong way around. It should be Christoph> __ARCH_WANT_* or something like that so new architectures Christoph> don't carry the old garbage around by default. There's Christoph> far too many new architectures keeping old syscalls by Christoph> accident. Feel free to do that. I was trying not to break anything and I'm _certain_ I would have gotten it wrong if I had reversed the sense. I think the current patch is an improvement, so unless someone comes up with something better, I'd like to see it applied. --david