On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 08:39 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

The ppc_select function was introduced in linux-2.3.48 in order to support
code confusing the legacy select() calling convention with the standard one.
Even 11 years ago, all correctly built code should not have done this and
could have easily been phased out. Nothing that was compiled later should
actually try to use the old_select interface, and it would have been broken
already on all ppc64 kernels with the syscall emulation layer.

This patch brings the 32 bit compat ABI and the native 32 bit ABI for
powerpc into a consistent state, by removing support for both the
old_select system call number and the handler for it.

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It's me or the patch is whitespaces damaged ?

Cheers,
Ben.