Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:56:25 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:01:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > David, I applaud your effort to take care of this. > However, this patch will conflict with what I've > sent into Linus already for Sparc. I also had to > add the sys_altroot syscall entry as well. > > I've mentioned several times that perhaps the best > way to deal with this problem is to purposefully > break the build of platforms when new system calls > are added. > > Simply adding a: > > #error new syscall entries for X and Y needed > > to include/asm-*/unistd.h would handle this just > fine I think.
I don't think that's a good idea. Normally new system calls are relatively obscure and the system works fine without them, so urgent action is not needed.
And I think we can trust architecture maintainers to regularly sync the system calls with i386.
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