linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] ia64: add __NR_old

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Message-ID: <CALxhOnjiKpnON7rGnf5a4Enbj3cTagD4DgvTyt-3XFxXk-Ps+A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Oct 2018 19:48:37 +0530
From:   Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] ia64: add __NR_old_getpagesize macro

Hi Arnd,

On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 17:41, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:16 PM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > Add __NR_old_getpagesize in order to not break old user space
> > as it is reserved for backwards compatibility with old __NR_
> > getpagesize.
>
> That description doesn't really make sense here.

Sure I'll some more details. But rest of the patch looks good?
This is some I was bit confused! In header there is no entry, but
in system call table has the entry for the system call.

- Firoz

>
>         Arnd