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=-0.7 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED 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 C93B1C04EB8 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 848192081F for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:32:47 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="Y3eSx5FQ" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 848192081F Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org 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 S1730111AbeLJXcq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:32:46 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:41328 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728400AbeLJXcq (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:32:46 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=EtOtxKiOL45ufi6xOH0+jeDsJSuSiVvAjcb5eqcsNxc=; b=Y3eSx5FQk1qy4TOLoJ70RtEhO LHNl+/GHpbnkfHHD0/YD05EFjaFdrnF3oXQ9j+pF/M/1nJifCuN81SIzSRpidIjWfXtj17M8kzMBO 4u6vLQdILJ7oxzkJcyrGeLcT7x22kA2hzbAnZaTYlY8f1GIar1MWLKtQWIZCXgWCVJYbZZceA28g9 /6jhDtj/Xhvoe/YjW93uNbTzCNcxJBcSX19uGUsNOIBYQ8qOIpfgokvV8+b6A8V5OcNBPgU3sNmxC Hs91y4jLyJ83M/Q0aK2ccnuZ7u77tKi432MHpx7SLd09SifP++BydZOEX/GMnQ0Kiipeovgq0ReC8 SzHce549w==; Received: from static-50-53-52-16.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net ([50.53.52.16] helo=midway.dunlab) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1gWV2b-0002JT-Hv; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:32:45 +0000 Subject: Re: Official Linux system wrapper library? To: Carlos O'Donell , Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg KH , Daniel Colascione , linux-kernel , Joel Fernandes , Linux API References: <20181110192027.GA29892@kroah.com> <20181112023630.GA20359@kroah.com> <20181112090828.2573987d@lwn.net> <20181210092706.1aa54432@lwn.net> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 15:32:42 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/10/18 9:39 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On 12/10/18 11:27 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 20:38:56 -0800 >> Randy Dunlap wrote: >> >>> On 11/12/18 8:08 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >>>> On Sun, 11 Nov 2018 18:36:30 -0800 >>>> Greg KH wrote: >>>> >>>>> We should have a checklist. That's a great idea. Now to find someone >>>>> to write it... :) >>>> >>>> Do we think the LPC session might have the right people to create such a >>>> thing? If so, I can try to put together a coherent presentation of the >>>> result. >>> >>> Hi, >>> Did anything ever happen with this syscall checklist suggestion? >> >> No, we really didn't have the right people around to do that, >> unfortunately. > > We already have Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst. > > The documentation there is quite thorough. > > It lists things that people commonly forget e.g. email linux-api@vger.kernel.org. > > Would it be acceptable to attempt to collate per-libc information > into the adding-syscalls.rst under a new section called: > > "Integration with libc" > I think that updates to adding-syscalls.rst would be sufficient, instead of having a new/separate syscalls-checklist file. thanks, -- ~Randy