From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] arch: synchronize syscall tables in preparation for y2038 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:07:43 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20190110162435.309262-1-arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Rich Felker , "linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org" , Linux-sh list , Catalin Marinas , Heiko Carstens , Dominik Brodowski , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Max Filippov , Deepa Dinamani , "H. Peter Anvin" , sparclinux , linux-s390 , Davidlohr Bueso , y2038 Mailman List , Michael Ellerman , Helge Deller , the arch/x86 maintainers , Russell King , Ingo Molnar , Firoz Khan , Matt Turner , Fenghua Yu , Will Deacon List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Arnd, On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:43 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 7:11 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 6:06 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:59 PM Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 5:26 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > The system call tables have diverged a bit over the years, and a number > > > > > of the recent additions never made it into all architectures, for one > > > > > reason or another. > > > > > > > > > > This is an attempt to clean it up as far as we can without breaking > > > > > compatibility, doing a number of steps: > > > > > > > > Thanks a lot! > > > > > > > > > - Add system calls that have not yet been integrated into all > > > > > architectures but that we definitely want there. > > > > > > > > It looks like you missed wiring up io_pgetevents() on m68k. > > > > Is that intentional? > > > > > > Yes, I thought I had described that somewhere but maybe I > > > forgot: semtimedop() and io_pgetevents() get replaced with > > > time64 versions in the follow-up, so I only added them in > > > 64-bit architectures. If you think we should have both > > > io_pgetevents() and io_pgetevents_time32() on all 32-bit > > > architectures, I can add that as well. > > > > Thanks, sounds fine to me. > > Just to be sure, you mean it's fine to not add it, not that we should > add it? I'm fine with not having the legacy 32-bit ones. Sorry for being unclear. 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