Re: [PATCH 1/1] syscalls: Fix references to filenames containing syscall defs

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Tue Nov 05 2019 - 04:34:13 EST


On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Mohammad Nasirifar wrote:

> Fix stale references to files containing syscall definitions in
> 'include/linux/syscalls.h' and 'include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h',
> pointing to 'kernel/itimer.c', 'kernel/hrtimer.c', and 'kernel/time.c'.
> They are now under 'kernel/time'.
>
> Also definitions of 'getpid', 'getppid', 'getuid', 'geteuid', 'getgid',
> 'getegid', 'gettid', and 'sysinfo' are now in 'kernel/sys.c'.

Can we please remove these file references completely. They are going to be
stale sooner than later again and they really do not provide any value.

Thanks,

tglx