Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:31:24 +0000

On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > it. However, I think it needs to be allocated *regardless* of whether Linus
> > takes the patch into his kernel. Even if the patch is simply used outside
> > Linus's kernel, it still needs the allocation to truly be safe.
>
> Negative numbers are safe until Linus has 2^31 syscalls, at which point
> quite frankly we would have a few other problems including the fact that
> the syscall table won't fit in kernel mapped memory.

Please leave the allocation of the exact number space to the port
maintainers discression.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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