From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763876AbYDXPlz (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:41:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758727AbYDXPlq (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:41:46 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:44902 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753313AbYDXPlp (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:41:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:41:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080424.084144.01839530.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080424.040239.193699673.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:39:37 -0700 (PDT) > Heh. This is what x86 has done since day#1. I wonder why other > architectures wouldn't have copied that part.. I passed it around in a register because nothing outside of the trap return and signal handling path needed access to it :-)