linux-kernel - Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?

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Date:	Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:32:49 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, arnd@...db.de,
	geert@...ux-m68k.org, acme@...hat.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 09:33 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On ARM, we used to use socketcall exclusively.  We've since added all
> the direct socket and IPC calls to our syscall table as part of the
> big EABI shakeup.  They certainly get used on EABI, whereas OABI has
> a choice.
> 
> They were made available in two stages - first the numbers were
> reserved
> and the calls were added to the call table.  A few years later, we
> exposed the syscall numbers in unistd.h.
> 
> It's now been almost 4 years since this was done, and there have been
> no bug reports. 

Agreed. It's definitely a switch we should do on powerpc. I'll look into
it after LCA.

Cheers,
Ben.


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