Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2015-11-19 10:33:54
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Date: 2015-11-19 10:33:54
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 15:29 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
On 11/19/2015 02:45 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:quoted
On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
quoted
Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of syscalls. We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls. __NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace __NR_syscalls with NR_syscalls.Hi, But what's wrong with the current code? Why do we need such change?Yeah, just out of curiosity. Why we had both __NR_syscalls and NR_syscalls to begin with ?
Evolutionary remains. This is a whorthwhile and fairly simple cleanup. Cheers, Ben.