linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Clean up kernel/timer.c

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Date:	Tue, 9 Apr 2013 11:06:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clean up kernel/timer.c

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Andrew Morton noted:
> 
> 	akpm3:/usr/src/25> grep SYSCALL kernel/timer.c
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE1(alarm, unsigned int, seconds)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getpid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getppid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getuid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(geteuid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getgid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(getegid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE0(gettid)
> 	SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct sysinfo __user *, info)
> 	COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sysinfo, struct compat_sysinfo __user *, info)
> 
> 	Only one of those should be in kernel/timer.c.  Who wrote this thing?

Hehe :)
 
> Move some non timer related syscalls to kernel/sys.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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