Re: [RFC] Introduce __ARCH_WANT_SYS_SYSFS

From: Will Newton
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 11:34:43 EST


On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Kyle McMartin <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:16:17PM +0100, Will Newton wrote:
> > It can be done with Kconfig. Whether it should be or not depends on
> > your point of view, hence RFC. Currently __ARCH_WANT macros is the way
> > syscalls are enabled and disabled across architectures. If there's
> > consensus that it should be done via Kconfig that could certainly be
> > implmented, but that's a different patch.
> >
>
> It's currently done in unistd.h for hysterical raisins. All new
> conditional syscalls have been done in Kconfig.

Do you have a syscall in mind that does this in the correct way?

BTW, don't blame the blackfin guys for this, I'm thinking about future
architectures that may be added rather than any existing ones. ;-)
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