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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 3/4] sparc: add system call table generation support
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From: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:09:57 +0530

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 02:03, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
>>
>> If sys_nis_syscall for the compat syscall shows up in a situation where the
>> native 32-bit syscall does have an entry, that's a BUG and the script should
>> point this out so that the bug can be fixed.
>
> syscall.tbl is the input to the script, so the developers has the
> responsibility to fill the table
> properly. I don't know, we have to write a script which has to be
> smart enough to catch the
> wrong syscall entries.

It does not need anything "smart", it just needs to see that
sys_nis_syscall in the "compat" column just as my eyes noticed
them in your patch.

It can be completely automated.

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