Re: [Acl-devel] [PATCH] add 64-bit Arm xattr syscall numbers

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 12 December 2012 10:32:03 Riku Voipio wrote:
> The syscall numbers for Aarch64 (The official name for 64Bit arm) are
> defined in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h. these numbers are also used
> by other architectures where there is no historic numbering of syscalls.
> Thus this patch uses the numbers on tilera (__tile__) and unicore
> (__unicore32__),
> 
> Applying this patch makes attr "make tests" pass on ext4 with Linux 3.7
> on the 64-Bit arm simulator.
> 
> Also, when making the next attr and acl release tarballs, make sure you run
> autoreconf autotools-dev 20120210.1 or later, to get aarch64 strings in
> config.sub and config.guess.

seems to me that this code is fundamentally taking the wrong approach.  it 
should just use SYS_xxx that sys/syscall.h already provides.
-mike

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