Re: [PATCH] Revert "ARC: Add guard macro to uapi/asm/unistd.h"

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 07:42:17 EST


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/19/2013 07:13 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> This reverts commit 97bc386fc12deeb41d5bff33548e3002b258d4e0.
>>
>> Generic syscall table generator relies on ARCH unistd.h as follows:
>>
>> void *sys_call_table[NR_syscalls] = {
>> [0 ... NR_syscalls-1] = sys_ni_syscall,
>> #include <asm/unistd.h>
>> };
>>
>> And turns out that prior dependencies already include that header by
>> the time preprocessor hits the above. Meaning ARCH unistd.h needs to be
>> able to included twice.
>
> OK, thanks, it sounds reasonable to me.
>
> But why many other architectures contents these guard macros? (arm, sh,
> blackfin, cris, frv, ia64, m32r, m68k, mips, s390, microblaze, mn10300,
> parisc, powerpc, sparc, x86). Do they need improvement too?

Those architectures don't use the generic syscall table generator.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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