Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2013-01-16 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Thursday 15 November 2012 06:05 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thursday 15 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> So the primary concern here is not breaking the userspace ABI - right ? >> >> For syscalls I agree that we will indeed need to fix the ABI - by fixing >> uClibc. And if uClibc doesn't

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: > So the primary concern here is not breaking the userspace ABI - right ? > > For syscalls I agree that we will indeed need to fix the ABI - by fixing > uClibc. And if uClibc doesn't merge the fixes we can stay out of tree > for uClibc - as we curr

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-14 Thread Vineet Gupta
On Tuesday 13 November 2012 04:07 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: >> So, I completely agree about not adding more deprecated system call or >> ABIs (thinking about the ptrace regset issues in another patch in the >> same patchset), but on the other ha

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-14 Thread James Hogan
On 14/11/12 12:23, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 13 November 2012, James Hogan wrote: >> Hopefully with several architecture maintainers asking for this it might >> get somewhere, but indeed we're aware of the feedback problem on that list. >> >> The points that I've considered for defaulting t

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-14 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 13 November 2012, James Hogan wrote: > Hopefully with several architecture maintainers asking for this it might > get somewhere, but indeed we're aware of the feedback problem on that list. > > The points that I've considered for defaulting to old syscalls: > * doesn't change existing b

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-13 Thread James Hogan
On 13/11/12 12:01, Jonas Bonn wrote: > On 13 November 2012 12:41, James Hogan wrote: >> The uClibc patches I mentioned have been posted, see here: >> >> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/uclibc/2012-November/047110.html >> >> Please do try them out and provide any feedback. >> > > Hi James, > >

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-13 Thread Jonas Bonn
On 13 November 2012 12:41, James Hogan wrote: > The uClibc patches I mentioned have been posted, see here: > > http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/uclibc/2012-November/047110.html > > Please do try them out and provide any feedback. > Hi James, Many thanks for picking this up... This is the thir

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-13 Thread James Hogan
On 09/11/12 09:50, James Hogan wrote: > On 07/11/12 14:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: >>> + * Being uClibc based we need some of the deprecated syscalls: >>> + * -Not emulated by uClibc at all >>> + * unlink, mkdir,... (needed by Busybox, LTP etc)

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-13 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Tuesday 13 November 2012, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > So, I completely agree about not adding more deprecated system call or > ABIs (thinking about the ptrace regset issues in another patch in the > same patchset), but on the other hand I have to wonder if having a > port in the tree that doesn't

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-13 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> + * Being uClibc based we need some of the deprecated syscalls: >> + * -Not emulated by uClibc at all >> + * unlink, mkdir,... (needed by Busybox, LTP etc) >> + * times (needed by L

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-09 Thread James Hogan
On 07/11/12 14:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: >> + * Being uClibc based we need some of the deprecated syscalls: >> + * -Not emulated by uClibc at all >> + * unlink, mkdir,... (needed by Busybox, LTP etc) >> + * times (needed by LTP pan test ha

Re: [RFC PATCH v1 14/31] ARC: syscall support

2012-11-07 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 07 November 2012, Vineet Gupta wrote: > + * Being uClibc based we need some of the deprecated syscalls: > + * -Not emulated by uClibc at all > + * unlink, mkdir,... (needed by Busybox, LTP etc) > + * times (needed by LTP pan test harness) > + * -Not emulated efficiently > + *