[PATCH] powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Nov 23 14:29:52 AEDT 2015


On Thu, 2015-11-19 at 12:15 +0300, Denis Kirjanov wrote:

> On 11/19/15, Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of
> > syscalls.
> > 
> > We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls.
> > 
> > __NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as
> > NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace
> > __NR_syscalls with NR_syscalls.
>
> Hi,
> 
> But what's wrong with the current code? Why do we need such change?

The change log explains it fairly well I think. Which part is not clear?

cheers



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