Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2015-11-26

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

On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 15:29 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
On 11/19/2015 02:45 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
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On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
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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.
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