On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 07:36:35PM +1000, John Williams wrote:
> > Please remember that MicroBlaze has been around as an arch for > 4
> > years, just not in the kernel.org tree. These older style syscall
> > interfaces are all part of the uClibc and glibc ports for MicroBlaze.
>
> So is it fair to say that you now understand this was the Wrong Way To
> Do Things, and if anyone asks, you'd recommend getting an arch merged
> into kernel.org sooner rather than later?
It's also an indicator we should have an asm-generic/unistd.h ASAP (as
Arnd suggested), to make sure future archs don't make the same mistake
over and over again.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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