[PATCH v2 01/14] powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific syscall handlers

Rohan McLure rmclure at linux.ibm.com
Tue Aug 9 10:15:29 AEST 2022


> Well, of course we need the patch build, so SYSCALL_DEFINE and 
> COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE have to go with the name changes, that's obvious.
> 
> My comment was more related to changes like the renaming of 
> ppc64_personality() to do_ppc64_personality() and the creation of 
> sys_ppc64_personality() and compat_....
> That could be a patch by itself.
> 
> Also patch 4 could go up front in order to avoid renaming a function you 
> are removing in a follow-up patch.
> 
> So as a summary, do all preparation up front of patch 1, in order to 
> keep it as minimal.

Thanks. I’ll split up this commit accordingly.


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