linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/22] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:28:37 +0400
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@...linux.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, rth@...ddle.net,
	rmk@....linux.org.uk, hskinnemoen@...el.com, cooloney@...nel.org,
	starvik@...s.com, dhowells@...hat.com, ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp,
	tony.luck@...el.com, takata@...ux-m32r.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, matthew@....cx, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	lethal@...ux-sh.org, chris@...kel.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/22] Introducing asm/syscalls.h

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:51:40AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> The following series of patches introduce asm/syscalls.h in various
> architectures.

Copyright for a bunch of prototypes?

All those /* kernel/signal.c */ comments are generally stupid and
useless, so no point adding even for functions that rarely move
(syscalls).

Of course, there is no explanation why files are being added.

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