linux-kernel - Re: [question] pread2, pwrite2 unistd symbols for compat

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Date:	Mon, 2 May 2016 17:22:48 +0200
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [question] pread2, pwrite2 unistd symbols for compat

On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 05:20:22PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> After I got the original patch from Andre and the same one from Christoph,
> I did not consider the possibility that they were both wrong and so I
> applied Andre's version.

It's because adding syscalls is simple a giant pain, full of pitfalls
that are completely non-obvious.  When asked to add syscalls for
architectures I can't personally test I'll have to rely on the test
bot giving me some feedback - and it seems the wrong thing here will
just silently pass without any notice.

The change looks fine to me, but then again I just demonstrated a complete
lack of clue on asm-generic syscalls..