linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/22] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:37:14 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...linux.org>,
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	chris@...kel.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

Hello Matthew,

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 23:55 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> I think it makes more sense to add them to linux/syscall.h, possibly
> with comments mentioning which architectures implement them.
> 
> If there are architectures with different prototypes for the same
> syscall, using an ifdef CONFIG_(arch) is /better/ annotation that having
> them in different header files.
> 

linux/syscalls.h is Linux syscall interfaces (non-arch-specific)

So asm/syscalls.h is Linux syscall interfaces (arch-specific)

And if we add all arch dependent syscalls.h in linux/syscalls then it
will be very complex and do not look nice, for example sys_fork is keep
on changing for many architecture.

Thank you,

Jaswinder Singh.

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