Hello Alexey, On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 04:28 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:51:40AM +0530, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > > The following series of patches introduce asm/syscalls.h in various > > architectures. > > Copyright for a bunch of prototypes? > So according to you, there _should_ be no copyright for header files. If this is the case, then remove it, I have no objections :) > All those /* kernel/signal.c */ comments are generally stupid and > useless, so no point adding even for functions that rarely move > (syscalls). > > Of course, there is no explanation why files are being added. > It may be useless for you but it looks useful for me. If you go though all syscalls patches only then you will figure it out syscalls are moving in many files for many architecture. There can be many reasons to add syscalls.h, few of them are :- 1. Declaring syscalls functions before they get used is a nice habit and will quite also quiet sparse. 2. Declaring all arch dependent syscalls under one roof is nice for future enhancement for kernel developers as they can see what is defined in other architectures and try to follow same prototype as far as possible, Then it will be really useful for everyone. And then we can move common arch dependent syscalls in one place. 3. Declaring all arch dependent syscalls under one roof is nice for user for reference purpose. Thank you, Jaswinder Singh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
