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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: missing syscalls
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:09:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070401200947.GB826@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070401.122345.123969742.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 12:23:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> You should hook both of these syscalls up even if the config option
> that enables them usually is not, or cannot currently be, enabled.
> 
> The cond_syscall()'s will make sure they always link properly and
> provide a -ENOSYS implementation.
> 
> Hooking them up makes it easier to check future missed cases without
> us having to add a plethora of ifdefs to the missing syscall checks
> for each platform.

I haven't looked at the missing syscall check implementation, but it seems
like it's poorly designed if we have to add ifdefs for each arch.  Why not
allow arches a mechanism to state which syscalls they intentionally
don't implement?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-01 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-01 16:01 missing syscalls Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-01 19:15 ` Russell King
2007-04-01 19:23   ` David Miller
2007-04-01 20:09     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-04-01 20:16       ` David Miller
2007-04-01 20:44         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-04-01 20:19       ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-01 21:32         ` Russell King
2007-04-01 23:12         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-01 19:23   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-01 21:33     ` Russell King
2007-04-01 20:54 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-01 21:10   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-04-02  5:58     ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-02 12:31       ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-04-12 20:51 ` David Miller

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