Re: [PATCH 1/2] m68k: remove nargs from __SYSCALL

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Jan 03 2019 - 05:45:32 EST


Hi Firoz,

Thanks for your patch!

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 4:19 PM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The __SYSCALL macro's arguments are system call number,
> system call entry name and number of arguments for the

name,

> system call.
>
> Argument- nargs in __SYSCALL(nr, entry, nargs) is neither

Argument nargs

> calculated nor used anywhere. So it would be better to
> keep the implementaion as __SYSCALL(nr, entry). This will

implementation

> unifies the implementation with some other architetures

unify
architectures

> too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh | 4 ++--
> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalltable.S | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
> index 85d78d9..904b8e6 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
> @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ emit() {
> t_entry="$3"
>
> while [ $t_nxt -lt $t_nr ]; do
> - printf "__SYSCALL(%s, sys_ni_syscall, )\n" "${t_nxt}"
> + printf "__SYSCALL(%s,sys_ni_syscall)\n" "${t_nxt}"

Please keep the space after the comma.

> t_nxt=$((t_nxt+1))
> done
> - printf "__SYSCALL(%s, %s, )\n" "${t_nxt}" "${t_entry}"
> + printf "__SYSCALL(%s,%s)\n" "${t_nxt}" "${t_entry}"

Idem ditto.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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