Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 09:33 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> On ARM, we used to use socketcall exclusively.  We've since added all
> the direct socket and IPC calls to our syscall table as part of the
> big EABI shakeup.  They certainly get used on EABI, whereas OABI has
> a choice.
> 
> They were made available in two stages - first the numbers were
> reserved
> and the calls were added to the call table.  A few years later, we
> exposed the syscall numbers in unistd.h.
> 
> It's now been almost 4 years since this was done, and there have been
> no bug reports. 

Agreed. It's definitely a switch we should do on powerpc. I'll look into
it after LCA.

Cheers,
Ben.


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