Re: [PATCH v4 08/12] mips: Get rid of custom mips ABIs for syscall tables

["André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>]

Em 12/08/2026 10:11, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, at 14:53, André Almeida wrote:
>> Em 12/08/2026 06:16, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, at 05:33, André Almeida wrote:
>>> I had expected you to use 'common' instead of '32' and '64' here. Since you
>>> did not combine the n32/n64 tables, this makes no practical difference,
>>> but it still makes the tables look different from all the other ones, and
>>> it means that the following patch to unify the tables is harder to
>>> validate since the inputs are still not line-identical.
>>>
>>> Is there some reason you went with this approach?
>>>
>> Ops, no good reason here, it was a mistake :) I will redo it to use
>> common from [1, 211] syscalls.
> 
> I can see this done in one of two ways:
> 
> a) make everything in the mips specific files 'common' and keep the
>     three separate files
> b) make only the first 211 syscalls in n32/n64 common, using compat
>     entries where those differ, then use 32/64 as the ABI for the
>     ones where the numbers went out of sync, and merge the two
>     files into one.
> 
> I've added Thomas Bogendörfer to Cc, he may have an opinion one
> way or the other.
> 

I believe b) is the best option here, as we can remove one more common 
file. I will add Thomas Bogendörfer in Cc for the next round.