Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964848AbaDIQ40 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:56:26 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48098 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932898AbaDIQ4W (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 12:56:22 -0400 Message-ID: <53457B80.1080307@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:55:28 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Geert Uytterhoeven , "Theodore Ts'o" , Arnd Bergmann , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kbuild CC: Miklos Szeredi , Jan Kara , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , Al Viro Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15 References: <20140403191558.GA8745@thunk.org> <20140404035308.GC2525@thunk.org> <20140404134429.GB26806@quack.suse.cz> <20140404234358.GE10275@thunk.org> <20140407140745.GA8855@thunk.org> <20140408134740.GB28822@thunk.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/09/2014 09:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>>> maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added. >>> >>> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and >>> inform us about it during our next kernel build. >>> >>> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-) >> >> Maybe we should change scripts/checksyscalls.sh to check the x86_64 >> list of syscalls, and not i386? >> >> It's been a long time since "all the world's an i386" --- these days, >> it's "all the world's an x86_64". :-) > > Let the kbuild people (and their employers) fight over it... > I'm missing context here, but as an x86 maintainer I have no intention of allowing system calls that aren't x86-specific to be added to x86-64 only. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/