Re: ignoring unimplemented functions that are old and crusty on shiny new ports

From: Robin Getz
Date: Wed Aug 15 2007 - 07:07:51 EST


On Mon 13 Aug 2007 22:05, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> would it be possible to get the class of "old and crusty" functions
> permanently ignored ? i'm thinking of course of "uselib" and "sysfs"
> ...
> Blackfin does not implement either of these and i think that's a good
> thing
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> index 0dcc01c..7f1a830 100755
> --- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> +++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> @@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ cat << EOF
> #define __IGNORE_sync_file_range
> #endif
>
> +/* Old optional stuff no one actually uses */
> +#define __IGNORE_sysfs
> +#define __IGNORE_uselib
> +
> /* Unmerged syscalls for AFS, STREAMS, etc. */
> #define __IGNORE_afs_syscall
> #define __IGNORE_getpmsg
> -

This seems like a good idea to me - as checksyscalls.sh is currently warning
about things we didn't implement on purpose.

-Robin
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