On 23 April 2014 13:18, Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2014, James Hogan wrote: >> The new renameat2 syscall provides all the functionality provided by the >> renameat syscall and adds flags, so future architectures won't need to >> include renameat. >> >> Therefore drop the renameat syscall from the generic syscall list unless >> __ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT is defined by the architecture's unistd.h prior to >> including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all architectures using the >> generic syscall list to define it so that no in-tree architectures are >> affected. > > I should have read this one before replying to patch 2 ;-) > >> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <[email protected]> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> >> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> >> Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]> >> Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Richard Kuo <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]> >> Cc: Lennox Wu <[email protected]> >> Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]> >> Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]> >> --- >> Is this the approach we want to take to keep the default syscall list >> minimal? We could for example have made renameat2 use the renameat >> syscall number for new arches, but it seemed best to leave a gap for new >> arches to improve consistency of numbering. > > I think leaving the hole is best. > >> This patch is a no-op for arches in tree, so there's no harm for this to >> wait for the v3.16 merge window. > > Sounds good. I guess I'll have to put this into my asm-generic tree > then, unless I can get the nios2 maintainers to pick it up.
Okay, thanks. > If you don't mind, can you submit the first two patches to Linus > directly? It appears Miklos Szeredi beat me to it with patch 1 (adding renameat2 syscall to asm-generic unistd.h), and will be submitting it to Linus at some point as part of his renameat2 series. Miklos: Do you think it makes sense for you to include my second patch in your series too since it's renameat2 related? http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139824773305016&w=2 Otherwise I'm happy to take it or both patches for v3.15. Cheers James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
