Re: [PATCH] Clean up sys_ioperm stubs

[Andrew Morton]

viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:51:30PM -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > Remove stubs for sys_ioperm for non-x86 arches, using sys_ni_syscall 
> > instead where applicable.
> 
> I have better suggestion: make sys_ioperm() a cond_syscall().  Then kill
> its implementation on all platforms where it just returns -ENOSYS.

Why is that better?  Sticking a pointer to the not-implemented-syscall into
the syscall table is pretty darn explicit.

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