Re: [PATCH] Making it easy to add system calls

[george anzinger <george@mvista.com>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 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.

Of course the numbers as well as comments on the inactive or unused 
entries could be added, just as they are today.  I had also considered 
the possiblility of adding the system call proto type as a parameter 
in the macro.  This could lead to a rather complete one entry 
description of the call.

Still, it seems to not be in favor, so I will let it drop.

-- 
George Anzinger   george@mvista.com
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