linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch: avr32: add dummy syscalls

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Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:45:03 +0700
From:	Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>
To:	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>
Cc:	Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@...fundet.no>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: avr32: add dummy syscalls

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Matthias Brugger
<matthias.bgg@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch adds dummy syscalls so that compiling
> for this architecture does not provoke warnings when
> checksyscalls.sh is called.

Nice, but...

> --- a/arch/avr32/kernel/syscall_table.S
> +++ b/arch/avr32/kernel/syscall_table.S
> @@ -298,3 +298,32 @@ sys_call_table:
>         .long   sys_recvmmsg
>         .long   sys_setns
>         .long   sys_ni_syscall          /* r8 is saturated at nr_syscalls */

This terminator needs to stay at the end. Its only purpose is to allow
us to save a cycle or two when saturating the system call number.

Also, Al's suggestion sounds good to me.

Havard
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