From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman•id.au>
To: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc•org>,
Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:29:52 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1448249392.18775.12.camel@ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOJe8K0yHTdymRbEo=itvK-AYiNzQLLspNgTyyzADkzpPxpzHw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:15 +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail•com> wrote:
> > 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?
The change log explains it fairly well I think. Which part is not clear?
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-19 6:04 [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls Rashmica Gupta
2015-11-19 9:15 ` Denis Kirjanov
2015-11-19 9:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-11-19 10:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2015-11-23 3:29 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2015-11-23 9:28 ` Denis Kirjanov
2015-11-23 10:14 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-11-23 6:23 ` Anshuman Khandual
2015-11-23 23:22 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-11-26 12:15 ` Michael Ellerman
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