On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 02:20:46PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > 2. There allegedly exists a patch to remove x86isms from sys_kcmp - > allegedly also in akpm's tree. However, I've looked through the code in > mainline, and nothing stands out. Ralf Beachle also said yesterday that > he has looked through from the MIPS PoV and also can't see any x86isms, > so we're both thinking that it should merely have the x86 dependency > removed. > > 3. Until the x86 dependency is gone (that depends on what akpm proposes to > do with the patches he's allegedly sitting on), non-x86 arches can only > reserve the syscall, and add an IGNORE for it.
There is a weak definition provided in kernel/sys_ni.c so it actually can be properly wired up in preparation for the day when the dependency in Kconfig gets fixed. > It would be good to at least get checksyscalls.sh fixed so arch maintainers > get their warnings for new syscalls back. Indeed. That script has become just too important. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
