linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

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Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 08:43:40 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:01:13PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Most system calls seem to get added to i386 first. This patch
> automatically generates a warning for any new system call which is
> implemented on i386 but not the architecture currently being compiled.
> On PowerPC at the moment, for example, it results in these warnings:
> init/missing_syscalls.h:935:3: warning: #warning syscall sync_file_range not implemented
> init/missing_syscalls.h:947:3: warning: #warning syscall getcpu not implemented
> init/missing_syscalls.h:950:3: warning: #warning syscall epoll_pwait not implemented
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>

You might also like to add:

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>

since I did resolve the issues with getting a sed expression which
did the right thing, rather than your for loop, awk, echo, and
providing a way to ignore the lack of certain syscall numbers...

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:
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