linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:41:44 +0100
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...flux.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:17:00AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:59 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > I will give it a shot tonight.
> 
> Thanks. I'll delete the syscalls-2.6.git tree now that you have it.
> 
> > One issue I have with current approach is that the ARCH specific
> > things are in a single .h file. 
> 
> Que? There aren't really any arch-specific things, except for a list of
> syscalls to be ignored which are i386-specific. That's because we're
> pulling in the 'master' system call list from asm-i386/unistd.h, and we
> need to exclude some of those which we don't really need on other
> architectures.
Yep - realized this when I took a closer look.
One thing striked my mind. It is correct that new things gets added
to i386 first these days?
To me it looks like x86_64 is growing larger than i386 among the
developers these days so using asm-x86_64/unistd.h could be a better choice?

	Sam
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