Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove bogus ppc_select syscall

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:03:38 +0200

On Wednesday 24 September 2008, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h b/arch/powerpc/include/a=
sm/systbl.h
> > index f6cc7a4..5a69b32 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h
> > @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ COMPAT_SYS_SPU(gettimeofday)
> > =A0COMPAT_SYS_SPU(settimeofday)
> > =A0COMPAT_SYS_SPU(getgroups)
> > =A0COMPAT_SYS_SPU(setgroups)
> > -SYSX(sys_ni_syscall,sys_ni_syscall,ppc_select)
> > +SYSCALL(sys_ni_syscall)
>=20
> I don't see any reason to remove the old select syscall on 32-bit
> kernels. =A0

Well, the point I made earlier ist that the native ppc32 path should
behave the same way as the compat ppc32 path. If we keep ppc_select
in one way or another, we should also have a compat wrapper for that,
right?

	Arnd <><