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SubjectRe: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree
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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

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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