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

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:37:45 +0000
From:   Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
CC:     Paul Burton <pburton@...ecomp.com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.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" <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        "arnd@...db.de" <arnd@...db.de>,
        "deepa.kernel@...il.com" <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        "marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org" <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>,
        "firoz.khan@...aro.org" <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        "linux-mips@...r.kernel.org" <linux-mips@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mips: remove nargs from __SYSCALL

Hello,

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 mips-next.

Thanks,
    Paul

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