git: d89c1c461ce3 - main - Reserve gaps in syscall numbers for local use

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 12:50:35AM +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 06:28:24PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > The branch main has been updated by brooks:
> > 
> > URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=d89c1c461ce31bfc789dbb7bc5f4fce5824c595e
> > 
> > commit d89c1c461ce31bfc789dbb7bc5f4fce5824c595e
> > Author:     Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>
> > AuthorDate: 2021-01-26 18:27:45 +0000
> > Commit:     Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org>
> > CommitDate: 2021-01-26 18:27:45 +0000
> > 
> >     Reserve gaps in syscall numbers for local use
> >     
> >     It is best for auditing of syscalls.master if we only append to the
> >     file.  Reserving unimplemented system call numbers for local use makes
> >     this policy and provides a large set of syscall numbers FreeBSD
> >     derivatives can use without risk of conflict.
> >     
> >     Reviewed by:    jhb, kevans, kib
> >     Sponsored by:   DARPA
> >     Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27988
> > ---
> >  sys/kern/init_sysent.c   | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >  sys/kern/syscalls.c      | 120 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> >  sys/kern/syscalls.master |  55 ++++++++++------------
> >  3 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 150 deletions(-)
> I highly dislike this.  You committed both manually edited file and generated
> files in one commit.  Can we please avoid this?
> 
> It is hard/impossible to read the diff as is.

While in this case it would be harmless to split the changes, I strongly
disagree with the concept of separating syscalls.master changes and
generated files because in the common case (adding syscalls) it requires
that the first commit break the build.

-- Brooks
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