[uClibc]Re: [PATCH] Bogus errno return values for MIPS system calls...

Miles Bader miles at lsi.nec.co.jp
Wed May 22 01:07:31 UTC 2002


"Steven J. Hill" <sjhill at realitydiluted.com> writes:
> The system call functions in the Linux kernel for MIPS do not work
> properly for kernels >=2.4.17 and hence the values for 'errno'
> returned for all syscalls are bogus. Attached is a patch that reverts
> back to the old syscall definitions.

I'm no mips expert, but ... the definitions you reverted look basically
the same except for the syscall parameter/result moves being moved out
of the asm statement and exposed to gcc.  Did you debug why they didn't
work?

-Miles
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