linux-kernel - Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Re: microblaze syscall list

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804251331230.29595@anakin>
Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:32:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
cc:	John Williams <jwilliams@...e.uq.edu.au>,
	microblaze-uclinux@...e.uq.edu.au, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Will Newton <will.newton@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, git@...inx.com
Subject: Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Re: microblaze syscall list

On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:36:35PM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> > Please remember that MicroBlaze has been around as an arch for > 4 
> > years, just not in the kernel.org tree.  These older style syscall 
> > interfaces are all part of the uClibc and glibc ports for MicroBlaze.
> 
> So is it fair to say that you now understand this was the Wrong Way To
> Do Things, and if anyone asks, you'd recommend getting an arch merged
> into kernel.org sooner rather than later?

It's also an indicator we should have an asm-generic/unistd.h ASAP (as
Arnd suggested), to make sure future archs don't make the same mistake
over and over again.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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