From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] scripts/checksyscalls.sh: Make renameat optional
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:15:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201404231415.24869.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1398247687-13453-3-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>
On Wednesday 23 April 2014, James Hogan wrote:
> The new renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality of renameat
> with an additional flags argument, so make renameat optional so that
> future architectures can omit it without getting a warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> This patch doesn't affect existing architectures, so there's no harm for
> this to wait for the v3.16 merge window.
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
I'm not actually sure how we'd arrange for new architectures not
to provide renameat() when using the generic syscall ABI, but this
patch is correct anyway.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-23 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 10:08 [PATCH 0/3] asm-generic: Add renameat2, drop renameat by default James Hogan
2014-04-23 10:08 ` [PATCH 1/3] asm-generic: Add renameat2 syscall James Hogan
2014-04-23 12:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-23 10:08 ` [RFC 2/3] scripts/checksyscalls.sh: Make renameat optional James Hogan
2014-04-23 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2014-04-23 10:08 ` [RFC 3/3] asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list James Hogan
2014-04-23 12:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-04-23 12:41 ` James Hogan
2014-04-29 11:24 ` Szeredi Miklos
2014-05-14 16:16 ` James Hogan
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