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authorAndré Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>2021-01-30 02:45:46 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2021-02-04 22:47:24 +0100
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docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
The documentation explains the need to create internal syscalls' helpers, and that they should be called `kern_xyzzy()`. However, the comment at include/linux/syscalls.h says that they should be named as `ksys_xyzzy()`, and so are all the helpers declared bellow it. Change the documentation to reflect this. Fixes: 819671ff849b ("syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel") Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel. If the syscall functionality is
useful to be used within the kernel, needs to be shared between an old and a
new syscall, or needs to be shared between a syscall and its compatibility
variant, it should be implemented by means of a "helper" function (such as
-``kern_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
+``ksys_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
syscall stub (``sys_xyzzy()``), the compatibility syscall stub
(``compat_sys_xyzzy()``), and/or other kernel code.