Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 3.15

[Heiko Carstens]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:15:36PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Is there anything obvious that I might be doing wrong?
> >>
> >> I only wired up the syscall for x86_64.   Who's responsible for adding
> >> all the syscall tables for the various architectures?
> >
> > Ah, and I was testing with i386, not x86_64, so that it explains that.
> >
> > It's been quite a while since I've worked to add a new system call,
> > but my impressure is that in general the person who creates the new
> > system call needs to reach out to the architecture maintainers
> > (preferably with a patch :-), since otherwise the architecture
> 
> Preferably the creator of the new system call emails linux-arch.
> Patches are always nice to have, but they may cause conflicts w.r.t.
> syscall numbering.
> 
> > maintainers would have no idea that a new syscall has been added.
> 
> If i386 has the new syscall, scripts/checksyscalls.sh will catch it and
> inform us about it during our next kernel build.
> 
> If you add it to x86_64 only, bad luck for anyone else ;-)

Also it would be nice if somebody would pick up the patch below as well :)