Re: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: complain about missing system calls.

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On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:29 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Sam Ravnborg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Most system calls seem to get added to i386 first. This patch
> > automatically generates a warning for any new system call which is
> > implemented on i386 but not the architecture currently being compiled.
> 
> This is now upstream, and so I see a bunch of warnings for every ia64
> build.  Some of them are real, I need to add some syscalls, but there
> are a few bogus ones because ia64 chose different names (e.g. we have
> a sys_clone() that glibc uses to implement fork() and vfork()).
> 
> Just checking that the right way for me to shut checksyscalls.sh up is
> to add:
> 
> #define __IGNORE_fork
> #define __IGNORE_vfork
> 
> etc. to include/asm-ia64/unistd.h for each of the bogus ones.  Or is there
> some other preferred mechanism?

You could add them to scripts/checksyscalls.sh itself -- I think it's
fairly unlikely that those are syscalls which a new arch port is going
to 'forget' :)

-- 
dwmw2

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