Merging some linux/generic code into linux?

[Joseph Myers]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2015, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> architectures? I am not sure if passing one more argument to the
> syscalls really changes the performances.

Well, it probably increases code size compared to using the direct 
syscalls where available.  But some unification makes sense in at least a 
subset of cases: those where the generic/ code is actually needed on some 
other architectures as well.  E.g. umount (bug 16552).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com