All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: remove the useless NR_syscalls macro
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:13:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118081306.GC16597@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47901FE9.9020403@gmail.com>


* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is against current x86.git.
> 
> The size of the system call table for 32-bit x86 kernels is obtained 
> by compile-time calculation of the sys_call_table array, not from the 
> value, which the NR_syscalls macro expands to. This trivial patch 
> removes the fossil macro.
> 
> Manually tested by grepping the x86 files for the "NR_syscalls" 
> string. No relevant use cases found.
> 
> Build-tested using allyesconfig, allnoconfig and a couple of 
> randconfig instances. All builds successfully finished.
> 
> Runtime test performed using a stripped-down Debian-ish config. The 
> system booted successfully.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18  3:41 [PATCH] x86_32: remove the useless NR_syscalls macro Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-01-18  8:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20080118081306.GC16597@elte.hu \
    --to=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.