Re: sys_kcmp (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: add finit_module syscall toARM)

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Sat Sep 22 2012 - 07:45:46 EST


On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:56:42PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Russell King <rmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That brings up another question though - when was kcmp added to x86, and
> > why aren't we getting notifications from checksyscalls.sh that ARM hasn't
> > been updated?
> >
> > It seems to be that the script was broken, and no one has noticed.
>
> It seems Heiko did notice: http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,559093
>
> Now, I'm a bit puzzled by what follows: Heiko proposes a patch to
> ignore sys_kcmp,
> as it's x86-specific, which is acked by Cyrill. Then it suddenly

hpa@ pointed that better approach is to implement kcmp on other archs
after i've acked the patch. so then Heiko provided a patch for s390.
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