Re: [PATCH v9 09/15] syscalls: Add an option for offsetting the common table
From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Nov 12 2026 - 09:18:08 EST
On Thu, Nov 5, 2026, at 21:05, André Almeida wrote:
> To better support architectures that doesn't share the same syscall
> numbers, but have them in the same sequence, add an new option to offset
> the common syscall table numbers by a value. This make it possible to reuse
> the common syscall table for alpha.
>
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes from v4:
> - I was reusing the logic from --offset to apply the --common-offset, but
> the logic is different: --offset does a string concat, and --common-offset
> does a addition to the number
I don't understand why this should be different here.
Arnd