Re: IA32 syscall 311 not implemented on x86_64

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 02:56:10PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 
> Actually it is kinda throttled, but only on process name.
> This patch just removes that stuff completely.
> (Also removes a bunch of trailing whitespace)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> 
> --- linux-2.6.16.noarch/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c~	2006-05-21 14:50:57.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.16.noarch/arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c	2006-05-21 14:51:48.000000000 -0400
> @@ -522,17 +522,9 @@ sys32_waitpid(compat_pid_t pid, unsigned
>  }
>  
>  int sys32_ni_syscall(int call)
> -{ 
> -	struct task_struct *me = current;
> -	static char lastcomm[sizeof(me->comm)];
> -
> -	if (strncmp(lastcomm, me->comm, sizeof(lastcomm))) {
> -		printk(KERN_INFO "IA32 syscall %d from %s not implemented\n",
> -		       call, me->comm);
> -		strncpy(lastcomm, me->comm, sizeof(lastcomm));
> -	} 
> -	return -ENOSYS;	       
> -} 
> +{
> +	return -ENOSYS;
> +}
>...

Why can't we remove sys32_ni_syscall() and call sys_ni_syscall() 
instead if all we want to do is to return -ENOSYS?

cu
Adrian

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