Re: [PATCH 1/1] syscalls: Fix references to filenames containing syscall defs

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On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 10:49:12AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:34 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
I actually refer to them a lot when locating syscall implementations,
which is how I found out that they were stale in the first place.

+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).
Sorry I didn't understand, is there anything I can do to follow up on this?

     Arnd




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