linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup

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Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2023 14:44:57 -0700
From:   Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()

Hi Arnd,

On 7/10/2023 11:51 AM, Sohil Mehta wrote:
> commit 'be65de6b03aa ("fs: Remove dcookies support")' removed the
> syscall definition for lookup_dcookie.  However, syscall tables still
> point to the old sys_lookup_dcookie() definition. Update syscall tables
> of all architectures to directly point to sys_ni_syscall() instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@...el.com>
> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org> # for perf

The patch has received a couple of additional Acks.

Does this seem like a valuable cleanup? If so, should it go through the
asm-generic tree?

Sohil