From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29460C04EB8 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB9C120850 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:20:48 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org EB9C120850 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesourcery.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725952AbeLFRUr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:20:47 -0500 Received: from relay1.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.131]:62174 "EHLO relay1.mentorg.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725871AbeLFRUr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Dec 2018 12:20:47 -0500 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:256) id 1gUxKL-0000pL-SU from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:20:41 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.90) by svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1320.4; Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:20:38 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1gUxKI-0006nE-0H; Thu, 06 Dec 2018 17:20:38 +0000 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 17:20:37 +0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Paul Burton , Firoz Khan , "open list:RALINK MIPS ARCHITECTURE" , Ralf Baechle , James Hogan , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Philippe Ombredanne , Thomas Gleixner , Kate Stewart , y2038 Mailman List , Arnd Bergmann , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux-Arch , Deepa Dinamani , Marcin Juszkiewicz , Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] mips: system call table generation support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1543481016-18500-1-git-send-email-firoz.khan@linaro.org> <20181205063436.kzxgnvgexcgq572k@pburton-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.21 (DEB 202 2017-01-01) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: SVR-IES-MBX-07.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.7) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2018, Joseph Myers wrote: > > > > I believe this file is used by the glibc build process to retrieve > > > syscall numbers for glibc's own use as well for . Has the > > > change been verified not to break this process? > > > > > > Cc-ing for information and possible further > > > input. > > > > I'm not sure what "this file" is. The glibc build uses the installed > > (the results of #including it, not any other kind of > > processing the file). > > So how are `SYS_' macros generated that land in ? By gen-syscall-h.awk, which generates #ifdef conditionals for each possible __NR_* name (as listed in syscall-names.list in glibc). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com