From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:13:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:13:05 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:43939 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 22:13:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3E66BF21.4010608@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 22:23:13 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: george anzinger CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] Making it easy to add system calls References: <3E66A44A.6000808@mvista.com> In-Reply-To: <3E66A44A.6000808@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Your patch makes it impossible to tell at an easy glance which syscall is which number. The current code makes it quite obvious which numbers are assigned to which syscalls, and which syscall numbers are available for use. We lose valuable information with this patch, even if it does wind up to be functionally equivalent. Jeff