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FromMike Frysinger <>
SubjectRe: epoll handling in the alpha port
DateFri, 2 Feb 2007 01:22:50 -0500
On Friday 02 February 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> I think it would be reasonable to use the NR_epoll* names first, and to
> declare NR_sys_epoll* aliases which will point to NR_epoll*. You would
> then add a comment with the date of the change, stating that you keep
> them just in case there are some old apps. Then, someone coming on the
> comment in 3 or 4 years could reasonably suggest removing those aliases.

fair enough, sounds like a plan man ... patch attached to do that

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
---
diff --git a/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h b/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h
index 84313d1..e58a427 100644
--- a/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h
+++ b/include/asm-alpha/unistd.h
@@ -342,9 +342,14 @@
 #define __NR_io_cancel			402
 #define __NR_exit_group			405
 #define __NR_lookup_dcookie		406
-#define __NR_sys_epoll_create		407
-#define __NR_sys_epoll_ctl		408
-#define __NR_sys_epoll_wait		409
+#define __NR_epoll_create		407
+#define __NR_epoll_ctl			408
+#define __NR_epoll_wait			409
+/* Feb 2007: These three sys_epoll defines shouldn't be here but culling
+ * them would break userspace apps ... we'll kill them off in 2010 :) */
+#define __NR_sys_epoll_create		__NR_epoll_create
+#define __NR_sys_epoll_ctl		__NR_epoll_ctl
+#define __NR_sys_epoll_wait		__NR_epoll_wait
 #define __NR_remap_file_pages		410
 #define __NR_set_tid_address		411
 #define __NR_restart_syscall		412[unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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