Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Mar 2007 21:31:41 -0600 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls. |
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Hi,
> Most system calls seem to get added to i386 first. This patch > automatically generates a warning for any new system call which is > implemented on i386 but not the architecture currently being compiled. > On PowerPC at the moment, for example, it results in these warnings:
Love it!
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> Thanks for the update. Quite why the PowerPC kernel defines system > call numbers for all of these I have no idea :)
BTW while unistd.h may refer to sys_iopl etc, the actual syscall is sent to ni_syscall in most of these useless cases.
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