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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: System Call in MIPS
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:57:04AM +0000, chamak man wrote:

>    I am finding problems in adding a new system call
> for MIPS kernel.  Where can i get information on it. 

See include include/asm-mips/unistd.h and arch/mips/kernel/scall_o32.S.

In general adding new syscalls is considered a bad idea you may want to
look into using ioctl, sysctl(2) or procfs.

  Ralf