On Tue, 24 May 2011 09:16:28 +0200, Ingo Molnar said: > * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My gut feel says we should really implement an > > include/asm-generic/unistd-common.h to include all new system calls. > > > > That way there would be only one file to touch instead of 50. Certainly it > > works for include/asm-generic/unistd.h for the architectures that use it. > > And all we really need is just a little abstraction on that concept. > > I suppose that could be tried, although in practice it would probably be > somewhat complex due to the various compat syscall handling differences. Can somebody fill us newcomers in on the arch-aeology of why some syscalls have different numbers on different archs? I know it's partially because some simply didn't implement some syscalls so there were numbering mismatches, but would it have been *that* hard to wire all of those skipped syscalls up to one stub 'return -ENOSYS'?
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