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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:10:32 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] ia64: uapi header and system call table file generation
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On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:16 PM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:

> +#include <asm/syscall_table.h>
>         .org sys_call_table + 8*NR_syscalls     // guard against failures to increase NR_syscalls
> +#undef __SYSCALL

This part looks odd: according to the comment, this should only guard against
the table getting out of sync. However, with the script, that will never happen.

      Arnd