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

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Message-ID: <20070320105641.GA29198@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:56:41 +0000
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:43:08AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > hm, did you try running this on x86_64?
> 
> I don't have any. I only tested it on PowerPC and i386. Others then
> provided more exclusions for SPARC and maybe ARM, although I'm not sure
> you have the latter yet. It's not hard to add extra exclusions.

Some of the ones which come up on x86_64 also come up on ARM for the
same reason; they're obsolete system calls which probably shouldn't
be implemented on anything but legacy i386.  Things like waitpid, etc.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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