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

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:16:55 -0600
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Jaswinder Singh <jaswinder@...radead.org>
Cc:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	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, 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 11:37:14AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote:
> ???linux/syscalls.h is Linux syscall interfaces (non-arch-specific)
> 
> So asm/syscalls.h is ???Linux syscall interfaces (arch-specific)

That's how you see it.

> And if we add all arch dependent syscalls.h in linux/syscalls then it
> will be very complex and do not look nice, for example sys_fork is keep
> on changing for many architecture.

sys_fork() does seem to be the worst case scenario.  I suspect there's
similar ones (clone?).  I still think it's worth adding them all to
linux/syscalls.h.

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