Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI

["Franck Bui-Huu" <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>]

On 5/12/07, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 01:47:13AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> > Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: Simplify missing-syscalls for N32 and O32
>
> This is overengineered. The only reason to make the syscall check
> for each and every build was that this was easy and the missing syscalls
> are easy to spot during a normal build.
Well perhaps we shouldn't check for missing syscalls for a normal
build. After all, it's going to be used by arch maintainers or kernel
developpers once in a while (maybe every releases). So why not make it
optional ?

       $ make CHECK_SYSCALL=1

or

       $ make check-syscalls

> But checking all combinations is just not worth it.
> The arch responsible are assumed to build for the different architectures
> once in a while so a missing syscall are likely to be detected anyway.
>
> We cannot run each and every consistency check in all combinations
> for each build - that would end in only build noise.
That's not exactly the case, see Atsushi's reply.

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              Franck