Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: AUDIT=y build failure on ARM | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:44:16 -0400 |
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On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:49:08 +0200, Martin Michlmayr said: > I get the build failure below with AUDIT=y on ARM. The problem is > that lib/audit.c includes asm-generic/audit_dir_write.h which lists a > number of syscalls that are not defined on ARM (and some other platforms).
And somebody (I forget who) was complaining that some debugging tool was only available on the x86/sparc/ppc families of CPUs, and didn't like Alan Cox's suggestion that they go add it.
Given that missing an entire class of syscall (the *at flavors) on an architecture isn't a deterrent to inclusion, Alan's response was totally on-target....
(I'm presuming the usual reason for such missing syscalls is that nobody has bothered trying to run software that uses a *at call on an ARM, so nobody's bothered wiring them up and thereby increasing the kernel image size on a platform where it's likely to be *very* important?) [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |