From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758257AbYDUXKm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:10:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752730AbYDUXKc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:10:32 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34086 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753374AbYDUXKb (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:10:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:10:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: David Miller cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: [GIT]: Sparc In-Reply-To: <20080421.153231.108090227.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20080421.153231.108090227.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, David Miller wrote: > > This performs the scheduled removal of Solaris and SunOS > system call for sparc, much to the chagrin of Al Viro > and others :-) (in particular, that asm/namei.h crud can > now die) Hmm. I think this is sad. The fact is, Solaris/SunOS is the de-facto standard for Sparc. Which makes me think that not emulating them is a real capability loss. I realize that the code may be painful, but still... Linus