On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:46:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:36:21PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > I think we wanted that to keep the sys32_ prefixed based naming, to avoid > > collisions with generic compat handler names. > > For native syscalls we do this by adding a arch prefix inside the > syscall name, e.g.: > > arch/s390/kernel/sys_s390.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE(s390_fallocate)(int fd, int mode, > loff_t offset, > arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc_pipe_real, struct > pt_regs *, regs)
In fact we sort of wanted to standardize the name of arch overriden compat syscalls, so that userspace programs playing with syscalls tracing won't have to deal with arch naming differences. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
