From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] scripts/checksyscalls.sh: Make renameat optional
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:15:24 +0200
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On Wednesday 23 April 2014, James Hogan wrote:
> The new renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality of renameat
> with an additional flags argument, so make renameat optional so that
> future architectures can omit it without getting a warning.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> This patch doesn't affect existing architectures, so there's no harm for
> this to wait for the v3.16 merge window.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

I'm not actually sure how we'd arrange for new architectures not
to provide renameat() when using the generic syscall ABI, but this
patch is correct anyway.

	Arnd
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