Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:54:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] remove in-kernel syscall invocations (part 1) |
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: > > I don't think this patch series should wait for any of these cleanups, > though. We need these patches to change the x86_64 internal syscall > function signature, which we've been wanting to do for a little while.
Yes. And honestly, I'd rather have these kinds of "just change the calling convention" almost automated patches separately - and then the cleanups later.
Mixing the calling convention change and the cleanup together is just confusing and potentially causes subtle issues.
Linus
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