linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

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Date:	Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:36:08 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
To:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, rth@...ddle.net,
	rmk@....linux.org.uk, hskinnemoen@...el.com, cooloney@...nel.org,
	starvik@...s.com, dhowells@...hat.com, ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp,
	tony.luck@...el.com, takata@...ux-m32r.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
	matthew@....cx, schwidefsky@...ibm.com, lethal@...ux-sh.org,
	chris@...kel.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

Hello Ralf,

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:48 +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> > 
> > You write beneficial for userspace - but don't add <asm/syscall.h> to
> > include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm.  
> 
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
> b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
> index 7cd25b8..af24926 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ unifdef-y += socket.h
>  unifdef-y += sockios.h
>  unifdef-y += stat.h
>  unifdef-y += statfs.h
> +unifdef-y += syscalls.h
>  unifdef-y += termbits.h
>  unifdef-y += termios.h
>  unifdef-y += types.h
> 

I think, adding syscalls.h is not required in include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm.
Beneficial to userspace, I mean for reference purpose only.

Thank you,

Jaswinder Singh.

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