Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752673Ab0BHRyP (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:54:15 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:38475 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751546Ab0BHRyN (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:54:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Jason Baron , Heiko Carstens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mhiramat@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] syscalls: add define syscall prefix macro Message-ID: <20100208175407.GA14187@infradead.org> References: <20100203130104.GB30003@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20100208154856.GC2688@redhat.com> <201002081712.37166.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002081712.37166.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) 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: 949 Lines: 19 On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010, Jason Baron wrote: > > So I was trying to keep the names of the arch ia32 compat sys calls the > > same, ie 'sys32_blah'. However, I agree a common naming scheme makes > > more sense. what about 'arch_compat_sys_blah'? So as to distinguish from > > the common compat syscalls 'compat_sys_blah'. > > Why do you need to distinguish them? I would hope that we never need to > have a kernel with both a generic and an arch specific compat version > of the same syscall. Well, the usual alignment or number of arguments issues could lead to just that. We should deal with it the same way as for native syscalls. -- 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/