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Message-Id: <201211141223.05063.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:23:04 +0000
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>
Cc:	Jonas Bonn <jonas.bonn@...il.com>,
	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, Markos <markos.chandras@...tec.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

On Tuesday 13 November 2012, James Hogan wrote:
> Hopefully with several architecture maintainers asking for this it might
> get somewhere, but indeed we're aware of the feedback problem on that list.
> 
> The points that I've considered for defaulting to old syscalls:
> * doesn't change existing behaviour of other architectures, so is simply
> less risk of breaking them.
> * could possibly make uClibc slightly smaller if it doesn't have to add
> extra arguments.

The second argument is not very good when you consider that it means adding
the same wrapper into the kernel rather than into uClibc, where it can
be stripped out when unused (e.g. for static compilation) and doesn't
have to be present in memory since the library is in pageable user space
memory, while the kernel side implementation would always have to
present.

	Arnd
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