On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:58:54 +0200, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Simplify missing-syscalls for N32 and O32 > > This is overengineered. The only reason to make the syscall check > for each and every build was that this was easy and the missing syscalls > are easy to spot during a normal build. > But checking all combinations is just not worth it. > The arch responsible are assumed to build for the different architectures > once in a while so a missing syscall are likely to be detected anyway. > > We cannot run each and every consistency check in all combinations > for each build - that would end in only build noise. Well, 64-bit MIPS has three ABIs and each ABI has complete set of syscalls. So a result of default "missing-syscalls" target (which is for N64 ABI) is not useful at all for other two ABIs. I think checking them is worth even if the S/N ratio was quite low. --- Atsushi Nemoto
