Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:58:32 +0200 | Subject | Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Andrew,
On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > New syscalls are rather a pain, both from the patch-monkeying POV and > also because nobody knows what the syscall numbers will be until > everything lands in mainline. Oh well, it doesn't happen often and > it's easy stuff.
One more reason to let the assignment of syscall numbers be handled (1) by the architecture maintainer, (2) after -rc1, even for x86.
If x86 is no more the canonical source, scripts/checksyscalls.sh needs an update, though.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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