Re: [LTP] Aftertaste of removing testcases/kernel/include/stub-list

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 22:41 +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the file testcases/kernel/include/stub-list was recently removed. It  
> contained the list of syscall numbers which, if not present in the kernel  
> headers or in one of the architecture-specific lists, should be defined as  
> 0 (a stub value). Now, this list is automatically generated as union of  
> the architecture-specific lists. However, some syscalls only appeared in  
> stub-list, which means they are not stubbed now, so architectures lacking  
> them will probably fail to build (alpha...).
> 
> To overcome this, I have added these syscalls to the i386 list, which  
> means they will be defined whenever they are defined in the kernel  
> sources, on i386, and stubbed otherwise. See the attached patch.
> 
> BTW, the list of syscalls is not exhaustive. In the attachment  
> filtered-syscalls, there is a list of syscalls which appear as  
> __IGNORE_syscall-nr in the kernel sources (which means they are missing on  
> some architecture), but are not used in ltp or their use is guarded by an  
> #ifdef. They would have to be added too, if some test explicitely mentions  
> them (eg. getresgid16).

Thanks. I applied the 000*.

Regards--
Subrata

> 
> Regards
>      Jiri Palecek
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