From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262596AbVF2QaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:30:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262598AbVF2QaU (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:30:20 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:5338 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262596AbVF2Q3q (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:29:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:29:41 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christian Zankel Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Xtensa syscalls (Was: Re: 2.6.12-rc5-mm1) Message-ID: <20050629162941.GA30237@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Christian Zankel , Arnd Bergmann , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050525134933.5c22234a.akpm@osdl.org> <200505272313.20734.arnd@arndb.de> <20050528070714.GB17005@infradead.org> <200506291542.02618.arnd@arndb.de> <42C2CAB8.1080402@zankel.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42C2CAB8.1080402@zankel.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:22:16AM -0700, Christian Zankel wrote: > The question is, if we had to break glibc compatibility, shouldn't we > use the opportunity to clean-up the syscall list? It was copied from > MIPS and, thus, has inherited a lot of legacy from there. As a new > architecture, maybe we should even go as far as removing all ni-syscalls > and start fresh? Yes, that should be done for a new architecture. Unfortunately very few people actually care. Btw, what libcs do you have ported to xtensa?