Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:38:49 -0400 | From | Kyle McMartin <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Introduce __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SYSFS |
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:34:03PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Will Newton wrote: > > > It can be done with Kconfig. Whether it should be or not depends on > > > your point of view, hence RFC. Currently __ARCH_WANT macros is the way > > > syscalls are enabled and disabled across architectures. If there's > > > consensus that it should be done via Kconfig that could certainly be > > > implmented, but that's a different patch. > > > > > > > It's currently done in unistd.h for hysterical raisins. All new > > conditional syscalls have been done in Kconfig. > > Do you have a syscall in mind that does this in the correct way? >
epoll is the most immediate example at hand, since it touches fs/compat.c similarly to how you would be touching fs/filesystem.c, and touches kernel/sys_ni.c and init/Kconfig in much the same way.
> BTW, don't blame the blackfin guys for this, I'm thinking about future > architectures that may be added rather than any existing ones. ;-) >
Meh. :)
cheers, Kyle
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