[PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls

H. Peter Anvin hpa@zytor.com
Wed Sep 2 20:16:00 GMT 2015


On 09/02/2015 02:48 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> Should all other architectures follow suit?
> Or should we follow the s390 approach:
> 

It is up to the maintainer(s), largely dependent on how likely you are
going to want to support this in your libc, but in general, socketcall
is an abomination which there is no reason not to bypass.

So follow suit unless you have a strong reason not to.

	-hpa




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