Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the tip tree

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Andrew,

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> New syscalls are rather a pain, both from the patch-monkeying POV and
> also because nobody knows what the syscall numbers will be until
> everything lands in mainline.  Oh well, it doesn't happen often and
> it's easy stuff.

One more reason to let the assignment of syscall numbers be handled
(1) by the architecture maintainer, (2) after -rc1, even for x86.

If x86 is no more the canonical source, scripts/checksyscalls.sh needs an
update, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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