From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert [i386/x86_64]: Remove __KERNEL__ ifdef around _syscall*()
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 22:30:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609042230.13455.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157398050.2473.137.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
> 1. C libraries have their own syscall(); there's no _need_ for these
> macros to be exported by the kernel.
I like having them there. I find it it useful for my test programs.
It's also useful for numactl for once.
> 3. We should be consistent about what we provide in kernel headers.
> Since we don't provide these macros on other architectures, we should
> not do so on i386 and x86_64 -- especially as the reason for doing so
> seems to be just that the arch maintainer doesn't want to use the
> proper glibc function in his test hacks.
We've always provided them and continuing to do so is consistent.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-04 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200608302359.k7UNxIZW027536@hera.kernel.org>
2006-09-04 19:27 ` [PATCH] Revert [i386/x86_64]: Remove __KERNEL__ ifdef around _syscall*() David Woodhouse
2006-09-04 19:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-09-04 19:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-04 20:50 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-04 19:56 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-10 9:48 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-10 8:33 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-10 10:30 ` David Woodhouse
2006-09-04 20:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-09-04 20:30 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-09-04 21:16 ` David Woodhouse
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