Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Feb 2010 12:54:07 -0500 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] syscalls: add define syscall prefix macro |
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On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 05:12:36PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2010, Jason Baron wrote: > > So I was trying to keep the names of the arch ia32 compat sys calls the > > same, ie 'sys32_blah'. However, I agree a common naming scheme makes > > more sense. what about 'arch_compat_sys_blah'? So as to distinguish from > > the common compat syscalls 'compat_sys_blah'. > > Why do you need to distinguish them? I would hope that we never need to > have a kernel with both a generic and an arch specific compat version > of the same syscall.
Well, the usual alignment or number of arguments issues could lead to just that. We should deal with it the same way as for native syscalls.
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