Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> New syscalls are rather a pain, both from the patch-monkeying POV and
> also because nobody knows what the syscall numbers will be until
> everything lands in mainline. Oh well, it doesn't happen often and
> it's easy stuff.
One more reason to let the assignment of syscall numbers be handled
(1) by the architecture maintainer, (2) after -rc1, even for x86.
If x86 is no more the canonical source, scripts/checksyscalls.sh needs an
update, though.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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