From dd58e649742a5eabd327d47096f12d3302d908f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20Almeida?= Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 22:45:46 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst index 02857b5ad2b5..906c47f1a9e5 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst @@ -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.