From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>,
Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:29:33 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564D9D85.1090201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJe8K0yHTdymRbEo=itvK-AYiNzQLLspNgTyyzADkzpPxpzHw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/19/2015 02:45 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of
>> > syscalls.
>> >
>> > We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls.
>> >
>> > __NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as
>> > NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace
>> > __NR_syscalls
>> > with NR_syscalls.
> Hi,
>
> But what's wrong with the current code? Why do we need such change?
Yeah, just out of curiosity. Why we had both __NR_syscalls and
NR_syscalls to begin with ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-19 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 6:04 [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls Rashmica Gupta
2015-11-19 9:15 ` Denis Kirjanov
2015-11-19 9:59 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2015-11-19 10:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-11-23 3:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-11-23 9:28 ` Denis Kirjanov
2015-11-23 10:14 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-11-23 6:23 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-11-23 23:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-11-26 12:15 ` Michael Ellerman
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