linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat syscalls

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:05:07 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@...ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@...insight.net>,
	WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>, "Sam Ravnborg"@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat
 syscalls

On 23.6.2010 12:37, Andi Kleen wrote:
> It also has maintenance costs, e.g. I doubt ctags and cscope
> will be able to deal with these kinds of macros, so it has a
> high cost for everyone using these tools.

FWIW, patch 16/40 of this series teaches 'make tags' to recognize these
macros: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1002103

Michal
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