From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:55:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53457B80.1080307@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdW8xkBFJ5-E04rVhDk+CSubHut+kx3P6cYCn0dMhQdb-Q@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/09/2014 09:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added.
>>>
>>> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and
>>> inform us about it during our next kernel build.
>>>
>>> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-)
>>
>> Maybe we should change scripts/checksyscalls.sh to check the x86_64
>> list of syscalls, and not i386?
>>
>> It's been a long time since "all the world's an i386" --- these days,
>> it's "all the world's an x86_64". :-)
>
> Let the kbuild people (and their employers) fight over it...
>
I'm missing context here, but as an x86 maintainer I have no intention
of allowing system calls that aren't x86-specific to be added to x86-64
only.
-hpa
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2014-04-09 16:40 ` [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15 Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-04-09 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-04-09 17:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-04-09 18:23 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-09 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
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