Hi Andrew, On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > New syscalls are rather a pain, both from the patch-monkeying POV and > also because nobody knows what the syscall numbers will be until > everything lands in mainline. Oh well, it doesn't happen often and > it's easy stuff. One more reason to let the assignment of syscall numbers be handled (1) by the architecture maintainer, (2) after -rc1, even for x86. If x86 is no more the canonical source, scripts/checksyscalls.sh needs an update, though. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html