linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] m68k: Merge mmu and non-mmu versions of sys_call

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Date:	Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:20:27 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"Linux/m68k" <linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@...inux.org>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	uClinux list <uclinux-dev@...inux.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: Merge mmu and non-mmu versions of sys_call_table

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:53, Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> From 5739b340b334de21c6da4f65d5194957662a6dd0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
>> Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 20:33:02 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] m68k: unistd - Comment out definitions for unimplemented syscalls
>
> This is not a good idea at least for the syscalls referenced by glibc.
> It means that a glibc compiled against this <asm/unistd.h> will lose the
> ability to call those syscalls even if the running kernel happens to
> implement them.

But is any of them likely to be ever implemented on m68k?
Perhaps AFS, vserver and {get,put}pmsg()?
All others seem to be old, obsolete, or i386-only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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