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From: "Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com>
To: "Kyle McMartin" <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Introduce __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SYSFS
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:34:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a5b0800804220834q4d6daec1x4146d211115ab5c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422152426.GG19802@phobos.i.cabal.ca>

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
>  > It can be done with Kconfig. Whether it should be or not depends on
>  > your point of view, hence RFC. Currently __ARCH_WANT macros is the way
>  > syscalls are enabled and disabled across architectures. If there's
>  > consensus that it should be done via Kconfig that could certainly be
>  > implmented, but that's a different patch.
>  >
>
>  It's currently done in unistd.h for hysterical raisins. All new
>  conditional syscalls have been done in Kconfig.

Do you have a syscall in mind that does this in the correct way?

BTW, don't blame the blackfin guys for this, I'm thinking about future
architectures that may be added rather than any existing ones. ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-22 15:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-22 12:13 [RFC] Introduce __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SYSFS Will Newton
2008-04-22 13:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-23 21:16   ` Michal Simek
2008-04-23 21:38     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-24 11:11     ` microblaze syscall list Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-24 18:42       ` Michal Simek
2008-04-24 21:21         ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-25  9:36         ` [microblaze-uclinux] " John Williams
2008-04-25 10:06           ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-04-25 11:32             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-04-27  2:04             ` John Williams
2008-04-27 15:52               ` Michal Simek
2008-04-27 16:50                 ` Alan Cox
2008-04-27 20:15                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-28  0:15                   ` John Williams
2008-04-28 12:31                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-01 19:17                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-02  5:38                         ` John Williams
2008-05-02  8:18                           ` Michal Simek
2008-05-03  3:49                             ` John Williams
2008-05-03  9:16                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-03 15:56                                 ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-05-03 21:14                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-05  1:09                                 ` John Williams
2008-05-05 14:08                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-03 21:57                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-04  9:12                   ` Michal Simek
2008-05-04 19:37                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-05  6:18                       ` Michal Simek
2008-05-04 22:09                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-04 22:54                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-04 22:53                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-06  8:33                       ` Michal Simek
2008-04-24 20:51       ` Michal Simek
2008-04-24 21:37         ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-22 15:12 ` [RFC] Introduce __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SYSFS Randy Dunlap
2008-04-22 15:16   ` Will Newton
2008-04-22 15:24     ` Kyle McMartin
2008-04-22 15:34       ` Will Newton [this message]
2008-04-22 15:38         ` Kyle McMartin
2008-04-23 14:36           ` Will Newton
2008-04-23 14:59             ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-23 15:40             ` Kyle McMartin
2008-04-23 15:50               ` Will Newton
2008-04-23 16:05                 ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-23 17:59                   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-04-24  9:18                     ` Will Newton
2008-04-23 18:44             ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-04-24 14:51   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-04-22 15:21 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-04-22 15:38   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-04-22 15:42     ` Kyle McMartin

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