To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
        Bjoern Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
        Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
        Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] remove all remaining _syscallX macros
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	<20060827215637.555365000@klappe.arndb.de>
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 28 Aug 2006 09:35:17 +0200
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> The _syscallX macros were originally used by libc implementations,
> but now there is no libc that can be built against an up-to-date
> kernel an relies on them.
> The only users of these macros are the __KERNEL_SYSCALLS_, which
> are now gone as well, after execve has been removed from the
> kernel.

I would prefer to keep them on i386/x86-64 at least because
a lot of my test programs are using them.

-Andi
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