From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767524AbXCITo3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:44:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767523AbXCITo3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:44:29 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:48641 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767520AbXCITo2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:44:28 -0500 Message-ID: <45F1B818.4090007@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:40:08 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen , David Woodhouse , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls. References: <1173394873.3461.510.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070309163805.GV18564@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: <20070309163805.GV18564@lug-owl.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Not everybody has a simple indexed list of pointers :) For example, > for vax-linux, we use a struct per syscall with the expected number of > on-stack longwords for the call. > > So if something "new" is coming up, please keep in mind that it should > be flexible enough to represent that. :) > I discussed with Al Viro a while ago about using something like the SYSCALLS.def file from klibc as the source format for the system calls. That would deal very flexibly with almost all kinds of stub generation. -hpa