From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:48:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20140403191558.GA8745@thunk.org> <20140404035308.GC2525@thunk.org> <20140404134429.GB26806@quack.suse.cz> <20140404234358.GE10275@thunk.org> <20140407140745.GA8855@thunk.org> <20140408134740.GB28822@thunk.org> <53457B80.1080307@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" , Arnd Bergmann , Sam Ravnborg , linux-kbuild , Miklos Szeredi , Jan Kara , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , Al Viro To: "H. Peter Anvin" Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f54.google.com ([209.85.160.54]:34472 "EHLO mail-pb0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758261AbaDIRsd (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:48:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <53457B80.1080307@zytor.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Peter, On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/09/2014 09:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>>>> maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added. >>>> >>>> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and >>>> inform us about it during our next kernel build. >>>> >>>> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-) >>> >>> Maybe we should change scripts/checksyscalls.sh to check the x86_64 >>> list of syscalls, and not i386? >>> >>> It's been a long time since "all the world's an i386" --- these days, >>> it's "all the world's an x86_64". :-) >> >> Let the kbuild people (and their employers) fight over it... >> > > I'm missing context here, but as an x86 maintainer I have no intention > of allowing system calls that aren't x86-specific to be added to x86-64 > only. commit 520c8b16505236fc82daa352e6c5e73cd9870cff Author: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue Apr 1 17:08:42 2014 +0200 vfs: add renameat2 syscall It was added to arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl only. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds