On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Russell King wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:54:54AM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
> > sys_timerfd() has been removed, but avr32 still references it from its
> > syscall table.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ---
> > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:27:28 -0800
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > 
> > > Wires up the new timerfd API to the x86 family.
> > 
> > Just one thing...
> > 
> > > diff -puN 
> > > arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S~timerfd-v3-wire-the-new-timerfd-api-to-the-x86-family
> > >  arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
> > > --- 
> > > a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S~timerfd-v3-wire-the-new-timerfd-api-to-the-x86-family
> > > +++ a/arch/x86/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
> > > @@ -321,6 +321,8 @@ ENTRY(sys_call_table)
> > >   .long sys_epoll_pwait
> > >   .long sys_utimensat             /* 320 */
> > >   .long sys_signalfd
> > > - .long sys_timerfd
> > 
> > The next time you go and remove a system call, could you _please_ post
> > a HUGE warning to linux-arch? Or just do a quick grep and fix it up.

Haavard, that was my fault not Andrew's.  I thought that the patch setting 
it CONFIG_BROKEN carried a syscall unlink from tables.  I should have 
grepped anyway.



> Wasn't there a decision at a kernel summit that anything which adds
> new syscalls should have a test program included so that architecture
> maintainers can test the functionality on their architectures?

It was always there, even before KS:

http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test2.c



> I seem to remember that it came up because the merged timerfd was a
> pile of utter crap which didn't have a hope in hells chance of working.

Your pile of utter crap, was a typo that made the syscall return a 
truncated 32 bit "expired ticks" value (instead of 64 bit), and a wish 
from the manpages maintainer to have a way to retrieve the remaining time.



- Davide


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