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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:36:21 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/40] x86, compat: convert ia32 layer to use
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:14:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Any reason we need to differenciate between COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE and
> ARCH_COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE?  We don't need this for native system calls,
> so I can't see the reason to do it for compat system calls.
> 


I think we wanted that to keep the sys32_ prefixed based naming, to avoid
collisions with generic compat handler names.