linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15

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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:48:32 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	linux-kbuild <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15

Hi Peter,

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 6:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 09:40 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>>>>> maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added.
>>>>
>>>> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and
>>>> inform us about it during our next kernel build.
>>>>
>>>> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-)
>>>
>>> Maybe we should change scripts/checksyscalls.sh to check the x86_64
>>> list of syscalls, and not i386?
>>>
>>> It's been a long time since "all the world's an i386" --- these days,
>>> it's "all the world's an x86_64".  :-)
>>
>> Let the kbuild people (and their employers) fight over it...
>>
>
> I'm missing context here, but as an x86 maintainer I have no intention
> of allowing system calls that aren't x86-specific to be added to x86-64
> only.

commit 520c8b16505236fc82daa352e6c5e73cd9870cff
Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
Date:   Tue Apr 1 17:08:42 2014 +0200

    vfs: add renameat2 syscall

It was added to arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl only.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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