Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754607AbbHMXxk (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:53:40 -0400 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:54926 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752212AbbHMXxi (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Aug 2015 19:53:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:53:35 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: David Drysdale Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Michael Kerrisk , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Shuah Khan , Eric B Munson , Randy Dunlap , Cyril Hrubis , Josh Triplett , Pavel Machek , Andrea Arcangeli , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Oleg Nesterov , Linus Torvalds , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Andy Lutomirski , Al Viro , Rusty Russell , Peter Zijlstra , Vivek Goyal , Alexei Starovoitov , David Herrmann , "Theodore Ts'o" , Kees Cook , Milosz Tanski , Fam Zheng , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] Documentation: describe how to add a system call Message-ID: <20150813175335.1851f15c@xps.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1439193644-4773-2-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com> References: <1439193644-4773-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com> <1439193644-4773-2-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.11.1 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 16 On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 09:00:44 +0100 David Drysdale wrote: > Add a document describing the process of adding a new system call, > including the need for a flags argument for future compatibility, and > covering 32-bit/64-bit concerns (albeit in an x86-centric way). This seems about ready, so I've gone ahead and applied it to the docs tree. Many thanks! jon -- 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/