Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] m68k: Rename system call table file name

From: Philippe De Muyter
Date: Fri Sep 21 2018 - 01:49:01 EST


On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 08:36:09PM +0530, Firoz Khan wrote:
> The system call table entries are present in syscalltable.S. One of
> the patch in this patch series will auto-generate the system call
> table entries using the system call table generation script and
> which'll replace the existig table file.
>
> In order to come up with a common naming convention across all
> architecture, we need to change the file name to syscall_table.S.

That file was probably called that way to be able to distinguish it
from syscalltable.s and syscalltable.o in a file system with a 14
characters limit in file names (in sysV unix systems).

> This change will unify the implementation across all architecture.
>
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/m68k/kernel/Makefile | 2 +-
> arch/m68k/kernel/syscall_table.S | 403 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalltable.S | 403 ---------------------------------------

You should generate your patch with the '-M' or '--find-renames' option.

Philippe

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