linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

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Message-ID: <20070309033141.GE24695@kryten>
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:31:41 -0600
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, rmk@....linux.org.uk, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.


Hi,

> Most system calls seem to get added to i386 first. This patch
> automatically generates a warning for any new system call which is
> implemented on i386 but not the architecture currently being compiled.
> On PowerPC at the moment, for example, it results in these warnings:

Love it!

...

> Thanks for the update. Quite why the PowerPC kernel defines system
> call numbers for all of these I have no idea :)

BTW while unistd.h may refer to sys_iopl etc, the actual syscall is sent
to ni_syscall in most of these useless cases.

Anton
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