Re: [Xenomai] [Xenomai-git] Jan Kiszka : cobalt/kernel: Remove unused mode parameter from COBALT_SYSCALL

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2015-07-02 17:24, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 05:20 PM, git repository hosting wrote:
>> Module: xenomai-jki
>> Branch: for-forge
>> Commit: 99736c29a21a5e5536f8db9e580fd11cdb0eb0f2
>> URL:    http://git.xenomai.org/?p=xenomai-jki.git;a=commit;h=99736c29a21a5e5536f8db9e580fd11cdb0eb0f2
>>
>> Author: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> Date:   Thu Jul  2 17:12:39 2015 +0200
>>
>> cobalt/kernel: Remove unused mode parameter from COBALT_SYSCALL
> 
> We want to keep this. At some point, maybe, we will be able to use this
> information to instrument the code with calling context guards, or as
> the source of the mode data in the syscall table. Today, it's at least
> useful inline documentation, without having to browse the table.

This only makes sense when cobalt_sysmodes can be generated from it.
Currently it isn't, and I bet there are already plenty of
inconsistencies, minimizing the value captured via COBALT_SYSCALL
massively. So we should either get rid of cobalt_sysmodes or of that
parameter.

Jan

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