Re: [PATCH 11/15] Combine spufs_coredump_calls with spufs_calls

On Wednesday 12 September 2007, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Because spufs might be built as a module, we can't have other parts of the
> kernel calling directly into it, we need stub routines that check first if the
> module is loaded.
> 
> Currently we have two structures which hold callbacks for these stubs, the
> syscalls are in spufs_calls and the coredump calls are in spufs_coredump_calls.
> In both cases the logic for registering/unregistering is essentially the same,
> so we can simplify things by combining the two.

Nice cleanup!

> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
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