On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:34:03PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > > > It can be done with Kconfig. Whether it should be or not depends on > > > your point of view, hence RFC. Currently __ARCH_WANT macros is the way > > > syscalls are enabled and disabled across architectures. If there's > > > consensus that it should be done via Kconfig that could certainly be > > > implmented, but that's a different patch. > > > > > > > It's currently done in unistd.h for hysterical raisins. All new > > conditional syscalls have been done in Kconfig. > > Do you have a syscall in mind that does this in the correct way? > epoll is the most immediate example at hand, since it touches fs/compat.c similarly to how you would be touching fs/filesystem.c, and touches kernel/sys_ni.c and init/Kconfig in much the same way. > BTW, don't blame the blackfin guys for this, I'm thinking about future > architectures that may be added rather than any existing ones. ;-) > Meh. :) cheers, Kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
