From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767421AbXCIRVR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1767429AbXCIRVQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:16 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:41119 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767421AbXCIRVO (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Mar 2007 12:21:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls. From: David Woodhouse To: Andi Kleen Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, sam@ravnborg.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1173394873.3461.510.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:20:02 +0000 Message-Id: <1173460802.12760.2.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 17:11 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Of course the existing syscall numbers can't be changed, but for all new > calls one could just add automatically for everybody. > > A global table with two entries (compat and non compat) and a per arch > override table should be sufficient. Counterexample: sys_epoll_pwait. It'd be nice if it were that simple. It'd also be nice if people stopped thinking it was that simple :) -- dwmw2