Re: [PATCH 5/6] syscalls: add define syscall prefix macro

[Steven Rostedt]

On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 12:11 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:

> Most of the copat syscall are currently not using the 'SYCALL_DEFINE()'
> family of macros. For my purposes, the use of these macros allows them
> to be tied into the event tracing system. These macros append 'sys_' to
> the begging of the system call name. However, for compat syscall which
> are named 'sys32_blah', these macros are not sufficient. Thus, the need
> to introduce some new macros for the compat syscalls. 
> 
> > The added level of indirection makes problems for scripts/kernel-doc (well, if any of
> > the syscalls have kernel-doc notation, that is).  I'd prefer not to see 2 levels of macros
> > for defining a syscall, but if it has to live, please look into updating scripts/kernel-doc
> > also.
> > 
> 
> good point. I'll make sure the docs work properly.

Could you also make sure 'make TAGS' is updated too.
See scripts/tags.sh and search for SYSCALL

-- Steve


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