Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.

From: Anshuman Khandual <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:29:33 +0530

On 11/19/2015 02:45 PM, Denis Kirjanov wrote:
> On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta <[email-masked]> 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?

Yeah, just out of curiosity. Why we had both __NR_syscalls and
NR_syscalls to begin with ?