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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_32: remove the useless NR_syscalls macro
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:13:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080118081306.GC16597@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47901FE9.9020403@gmail.com>


* Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:

> This is against current x86.git.
> 
> The size of the system call table for 32-bit x86 kernels is obtained 
> by compile-time calculation of the sys_call_table array, not from the 
> value, which the NR_syscalls macro expands to. This trivial patch 
> removes the fossil macro.
> 
> Manually tested by grepping the x86 files for the "NR_syscalls" 
> string. No relevant use cases found.
> 
> Build-tested using allyesconfig, allnoconfig and a couple of 
> randconfig instances. All builds successfully finished.
> 
> Runtime test performed using a stripped-down Debian-ish config. The 
> system booted successfully.

thanks, applied.

	Ingo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-18  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-18  3:41 [PATCH] x86_32: remove the useless NR_syscalls macro Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-01-18  8:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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