Re: [PATCH 5/6] syscalls: add define syscall prefix macro

Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-08T16:13:58Z

On Monday 08 February 2010, Jason Baron wrote:
> So I was trying to keep the names of the arch ia32 compat sys calls the
> same, ie 'sys32_blah'. However, I agree a common naming scheme makes
> more sense. what about 'arch_compat_sys_blah'? So as to distinguish from
> the common compat syscalls 'compat_sys_blah'.

Why do you need to distinguish them? I would hope that we never need to
have a kernel with both a generic and an arch specific compat version
of the same syscall.

Arnd