From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:06:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH][RFC][CFT] remove global errno from the kernel, make _syscallX kernel-only Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 22:05:00 -0500, Lennert Buytenhek said: Lennert> What I would like to know from each architecture team: - Lennert> What is your arch's policy on userspace usage of Lennert> asm/unistd.h, and consequently, what is your opinion on the Lennert> goal these patches aim for? - Are the changes I made in Lennert> [1] and [2] for your $arch technically correct? Please CC Lennert> me on replies as I'm not on any of the lists posted to. Lennert> My intention is to push these to Linus for 2.5 if everyone Lennert> agrees. They're probably too intrusive for 2.4 (although Lennert> I'd love people to convince me otherwise). The patch looks good to me as far as IA-64 Linux is concerned. The syscall() macros exported by asm-ia64/unistd.h were never supported in user level. Thanks, --david