Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] alpha: system call table generation support

[Matt Turner]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:44 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily
> add/modify/delete system call table support by cha-
> nging entry in syscall.tbl file instead of manually
> changing many files. The other goal is to unify the
> system call table generation support implementation
> across all the architectures.
>
> The system call tables are in different format in
> all architecture. It will be difficult to manually
> add, modify or delete the system calls in the resp-
> ective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a
> script and which'll generate uapi header file and
> syscall table file.
>
> syscall.tbl contains the list of available system
> calls along with system call number and correspond-
> ing entry point. Add a new system call in this arch-
> itecture will be possible by adding new entry in the
> syscall.tbl file.

Sounds like a worthy goal.

I tried applying the patches and it seems they haven't been rebased
since v4.18. My rebases are in
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha.git/log/?h=for-linus

They seem to work for me, FWIW.

Is your plan to have the patches go through the separate architecture
trees, or go in together? I think I'd at least prefer for another
architecture to take the plunge before alpha.