Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753149AbYGTTF0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751290AbYGTTFQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:16 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:43697 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751284AbYGTTFO (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:05:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introducing asm/syscalls.h From: David Woodhouse To: Jaswinder Singh Cc: LKML , Ingo Molnar , rth@twiddle.net, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, hskinnemoen@atmel.com, cooloney@kernel.org, starvik@axis.com, dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp, tony.luck@intel.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org, ralf@linux-mips.org, matthew@wil.cx, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, chris@zankel.net In-Reply-To: <1216544940.12650.13.camel@jaswinder.satnam> References: <1216544940.12650.13.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:05:11 -0700 Message-Id: <1216580711.2475.175.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 (2.22.3.1-1.fc9) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 766 Lines: 23 On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 14:39 +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for all architectures > Beneficial for kernel and userspace Not really beneficial for userspace at all. Don't expose it. I'm a little dubious about touching all architectures at once. It might be nicer to do a first patch which adds an _empty_ on each platform, and includes that from . And then follow up with one patch per architecture. Have you compile-tested them all? -- dwmw2 -- 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/