Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758264AbYGUGRW (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:17:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754283AbYGUGRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:17:13 -0400 Received: from palinux.external.hp.com ([192.25.206.14]:54852 "EHLO mail.parisc-linux.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750954AbYGUGRN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 02:17:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:16:55 -0600 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Jaswinder Singh Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , LKML , Ingo Molnar , kernelnewbies , David Woodhouse , 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, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org, chris@zankel.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Introducing asm/syscalls.h Message-ID: <20080721061655.GE24246@parisc-linux.org> References: <1216592500.3679.14.camel@jaswinder.satnam> <20080721002837.GA3851@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <1216619100.2705.27.camel@jaswinder.satnam> <20080721055459.GD24246@parisc-linux.org> <1216620434.2705.38.camel@jaswinder.satnam> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1216620434.2705.38.camel@jaswinder.satnam> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 25 On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:37:14AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > ???linux/syscalls.h is Linux syscall interfaces (non-arch-specific) > > So asm/syscalls.h is ???Linux syscall interfaces (arch-specific) That's how you see it. > And if we add all arch dependent syscalls.h in linux/syscalls then it > will be very complex and do not look nice, for example sys_fork is keep > on changing for many architecture. sys_fork() does seem to be the worst case scenario. I suspect there's similar ones (clone?). I still think it's worth adding them all to linux/syscalls.h. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- 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/