Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.

From: Russell King
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 03:44:09 EST


On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:01:13PM +0000, David Woodhouse 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.
> On PowerPC at the moment, for example, it results in these warnings:
> init/missing_syscalls.h:935:3: warning: #warning syscall sync_file_range not implemented
> init/missing_syscalls.h:947:3: warning: #warning syscall getcpu not implemented
> init/missing_syscalls.h:950:3: warning: #warning syscall epoll_pwait not implemented
>
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

You might also like to add:

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

since I did resolve the issues with getting a sed expression which
did the right thing, rather than your for loop, awk, echo, and
providing a way to ignore the lack of certain syscall numbers...

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of:
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