linux-kernel - Re: [1/2] powerpc: remove nargs from _

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Message-Id: <44CLwk4pdDz9s6w@ozlabs.org>
Date:   Mon,  4 Mar 2019 11:48:06 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org,
        firoz.khan@...aro.org, deepa.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [1/2] powerpc: remove nargs from __SYSCALL

On Wed, 2019-01-02 at 15:02:03 UTC, Firoz Khan wrote:
> The __SYSCALL macro's arguments are system call number,
> system call entry name and number of arguments for the
> system call.
> 
> Argument- nargs in __SYSCALL(nr, entry, nargs) is neither
> calculated nor used anywhere. So it would be better to
> keep the implementaion as  __SYSCALL(nr, entry). This will
> unifies the implementation with some other architetures
> too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/6b1200facc051a3e487a52cbabd745f7

cheers