On Tuesday 13 November 2012, James Hogan wrote:

Hopefully with several architecture maintainers asking for this it might
get somewhere, but indeed we're aware of the feedback problem on that list.

The points that I've considered for defaulting to old syscalls:
* doesn't change existing behaviour of other architectures, so is simply
less risk of breaking them.
* could possibly make uClibc slightly smaller if it doesn't have to add
extra arguments.

The second argument is not very good when you consider that it means adding
the same wrapper into the kernel rather than into uClibc, where it can
be stripped out when unused (e.g. for static compilation) and doesn't
have to be present in memory since the library is in pageable user space
memory, while the kernel side implementation would always have to
present.

	Arnd