From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Re: microblaze syscall list Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:32:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <87a5b0800804220513t75690ceao938a288596b5ad0c@mail.gmail.com> <200804221515.28075.arnd@arndb.de> <480FA729.3000406@seznam.cz> <200804241311.09881.arnd@arndb.de> <4810D4A4.7050900@seznam.cz> <4811A623.80104@itee.uq.edu.au> <20080425100614.GB14990@parisc-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080425100614.GB14990-6jwH94ZQLHl74goWV3ctuw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: John Williams , microblaze-uclinux-rVRm/Wmeqae7NGdpmJTKYQ@public.gmane.org, Arnd Bergmann , Will Newton , Linux Kernel list , linux-arch-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, git-gjFFaj9aHVfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:36:35PM +1000, John Williams wrote: > > Please remember that MicroBlaze has been around as an arch for > 4 > > years, just not in the kernel.org tree. These older style syscall > > interfaces are all part of the uClibc and glibc ports for MicroBlaze. > > So is it fair to say that you now understand this was the Wrong Way To > Do Things, and if anyone asks, you'd recommend getting an arch merged > into kernel.org sooner rather than later? It's also an indicator we should have an asm-generic/unistd.h ASAP (as Arnd suggested), to make sure future archs don't make the same mistake over and over again. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert-Td1EMuHUCqxL1ZNQvxDV9g@public.gmane.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from edna.telenet-ops.be ([195.130.132.58]:47835 "EHLO edna.telenet-ops.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752728AbYDYLce (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:32:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:32:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Re: microblaze syscall list In-Reply-To: <20080425100614.GB14990@parisc-linux.org> Message-ID: References: <87a5b0800804220513t75690ceao938a288596b5ad0c@mail.gmail.com> <200804221515.28075.arnd@arndb.de> <480FA729.3000406@seznam.cz> <200804241311.09881.arnd@arndb.de> <4810D4A4.7050900@seznam.cz> <4811A623.80104@itee.uq.edu.au> <20080425100614.GB14990@parisc-linux.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: John Williams , microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au, Arnd Bergmann , Will Newton , Linux Kernel list , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, git@xilinx.com Message-ID: <20080425113228.7NTHMBJrePiUcrQuA-2ggFnoAzw7PLYf8YJJDfNuqKo@z> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:36:35PM +1000, John Williams wrote: > > Please remember that MicroBlaze has been around as an arch for > 4 > > years, just not in the kernel.org tree. These older style syscall > > interfaces are all part of the uClibc and glibc ports for MicroBlaze. > > So is it fair to say that you now understand this was the Wrong Way To > Do Things, and if anyone asks, you'd recommend getting an arch merged > into kernel.org sooner rather than later? It's also an indicator we should have an asm-generic/unistd.h ASAP (as Arnd suggested), to make sure future archs don't make the same mistake over and over again. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds