linux-ext4 - Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15

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Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2014 09:55:28 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15

On 04/09/2014 09:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>> maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added.
>>>
>>> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and
>>> inform us about it during our next kernel build.
>>>
>>> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-)
>>
>> Maybe we should change scripts/checksyscalls.sh to check the x86_64
>> list of syscalls, and not i386?
>>
>> It's been a long time since "all the world's an i386" --- these days,
>> it's "all the world's an x86_64".  :-)
> 
> Let the kbuild people (and their employers) fight over it...
> 

I'm missing context here, but as an x86 maintainer I have no intention
of allowing system calls that aren't x86-specific to be added to x86-64
only.

	-hpa

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