Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

New syscalls are rather a pain, both from the patch-monkeying POV and
also because nobody knows what the syscall numbers will be until
everything lands in mainline.  Oh well, it doesn't happen often and
it's easy stuff.

One more reason to let the assignment of syscall numbers be handled
(1) by the architecture maintainer, (2) after -rc1, even for x86.

If x86 is no more the canonical source, scripts/checksyscalls.sh needs an
update, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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