Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 03:01:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

David, I applaud your effort to take care of this.
However, this patch will conflict with what I've
sent into Linus already for Sparc.  I also had to
add the sys_altroot syscall entry as well.

I've mentioned several times that perhaps the best
way to deal with this problem is to purposefully
break the build of platforms when new system calls
are added.

Simply adding a:

#error new syscall entries for X and Y needed

to include/asm-*/unistd.h would handle this just
fine I think.

I don't think that's a good idea.  Normally new system calls 
are relatively obscure and the system works fine without them,
so urgent action is not needed.

And I think we can trust architecture maintainers to regularly
sync the system calls with i386.

-Andi