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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: complain about missing system calls.
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    On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:29 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
    > On 3/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
    > > Most system calls seem to get added to i386 first. This patch
    > > automatically generates a warning for any new system call which is
    > > implemented on i386 but not the architecture currently being compiled.
    >
    > This is now upstream, and so I see a bunch of warnings for every ia64
    > build. Some of them are real, I need to add some syscalls, but there
    > are a few bogus ones because ia64 chose different names (e.g. we have
    > a sys_clone() that glibc uses to implement fork() and vfork()).
    >
    > Just checking that the right way for me to shut checksyscalls.sh up is
    > to add:
    >
    > #define __IGNORE_fork
    > #define __IGNORE_vfork
    >
    > etc. to include/asm-ia64/unistd.h for each of the bogus ones. Or is there
    > some other preferred mechanism?

    You could add them to scripts/checksyscalls.sh itself -- I think it's
    fairly unlikely that those are syscalls which a new arch port is going
    to 'forget' :)

    --
    dwmw2

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