On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Luck, Tony wrote: > >+#define __NR_sys_migrate_pages 1280 > > The tradition is to leave out-of-tree patches to step to > a new number when new syscalls usurp the one they thought > they were going to get.
There are already a couple of syscall reservations in entry.S for kexec and vserver. What makes these so special? > New syscalls are not added very often, so this isn't really > much effort (compared with maintaining all the code to implement > the new syscall). Yes but its easier to simply replace the sys_ni_syscall with the function call when it finally hits mainline. If the number stays the same then the user space source using this function calls do not have to be redone and work on library maintenance can proceed concurrently. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
