Re: [PATCH 1/1 fyi] tools headers UAPI: Sync unistd.h to pick {list,stat}mount, lsm_{[gs]et_self_attr,list_modules} syscall numbers

From: Paul Moore
Date: Mon Jan 29 2024 - 11:55:32 EST


On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 11:05 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Thanks.

> So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
> the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
> check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.

We had a chat with Linus about this during this past merge window and
I've made a mental note not to update any syscall numbers under tools/
in the future. I apologize for any problems here, believe it or not
we were trying to be helpful ;)

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