Re: [PATCH 2/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Hi Askar,

> diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> index f5639d5ac331..a86a88207956 100644
> --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
> +++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
> @@ -514,8 +514,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ppoll_time32(struct pollfd __user *, unsigned int,
>   			  struct old_timespec32 __user *, const sigset_t __user *,
>   			  size_t);
>   asmlinkage long sys_signalfd4(int ufd, sigset_t __user *user_mask, size_t sizemask, int flags);
> -asmlinkage long sys_vmsplice(int fd, const struct iovec __user *iov,
> -			     unsigned long nr_segs, unsigned int flags);
> +asmlinkage long sys_vmsplice(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec __user *vec,
> +			     unsigned long vlen, unsigned int flags);

Why is 'int fd' changed to 'unsigned long fd'?
Should that be its own commit if the change is desired?

metze