On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:25:09 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > IMHO breaking the build unnecessarily is extremly bad because
> > it will prevent all testing. And would you really want to hold
> > up the whole linux testing machinery just for some obscure
> > system call? IMHO not a good tradeoff.
>
> Then change the unistd.h cookie from "#error" to a "#warning". It
> accomplishes both of our goals.
Please do so! And not only for syscalls, but also for other things.
That way we can procmail all mails sent to lkml or bk-commits-head that
add #warnings to arch/<arch>/ or include/asm-<arch>/.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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