linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] xtensa: system call table generation support

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Message-ID: <20181106203003.q7kqlwm5hcnxmu6t@octofox.metropolis>
Date:   Tue, 6 Nov 2018 12:30:03 -0800
From:   Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
Cc:     Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>, linux-xtensa@...ux-xtensa.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, deepa.kernel@...il.com,
        marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] xtensa: system call table generation support

On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 07:26:17PM +0530, Firoz Khan wrote:
> The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily
> add/modify/delete system call table support by cha-
> nging entry in syscall.tbl file instead of manually
> changing many files. The other goal is to unify the 
> system call table generation support implementation 
> across all the architectures. 
 
Do I understand it right that you're also planning to unify scripts
and makefile snippets used to generate headers, as they're not
architecture-specific?

> Firoz Khan (4):
>   xtensa: move SYS_XTENSA_* macros to non uapi header
>   xtensa: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_syscall_count
>   xtensa: add system call table generation support
>   xtensa: generate uapi header and syscall table header files

Other than the two notes that I've posted to the individual patches
this series looks good to me.

-- 
Thanks.
-- Max