Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs

Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Oct 2004 02:10:42 +0200

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 04:41:44PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 01:25:09 +0200
> Andi Kleen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > IMHO breaking the build unnecessarily is extremly bad because
> > it will prevent all testing. And would you really want to hold
> > up the whole linux testing machinery just for some obscure 
> > system call? IMHO not a good tradeoff.
> 
> Then change the unistd.h cookie from "#error" to a "#warning".  It
> accomplishes both of our goals.

#warnings would be fine for me.

-Andi