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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0wyw=CwhiU34t1zBiSesf+HGBLeaV+=JVko_TjnvATHQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 10:49:12 +0100
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Mohammad Nasirifar <far.nasiri.m@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Mohammad Nasirifar <farnasirim@...il.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@...edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] syscalls: Fix references to filenames containing
syscall defs
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:34 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Mohammad Nasirifar wrote:
> > Fix stale references to files containing syscall definitions in
> > 'include/linux/syscalls.h' and 'include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h',
> > pointing to 'kernel/itimer.c', 'kernel/hrtimer.c', and 'kernel/time.c'.
> > They are now under 'kernel/time'.
> >
> > Also definitions of 'getpid', 'getppid', 'getuid', 'geteuid', 'getgid',
> > 'getegid', 'gettid', and 'sysinfo' are now in 'kernel/sys.c'.
>
> Can we please remove these file references completely. They are going to be
> stale sooner than later again and they really do not provide any value.
+1
Good idea!
In the long run, I'd prefer to have a parsable format that can be used to
generate both the header file and the stubs that we currently provide
using SYSCALL_DEFINEx(), but before that I'd like the remaining two
unistd.h files to be converted to syscall.tbl format (Nitesh is still working
on that).
Arnd
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