Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrey Konovalov
f41935d53f Allow range sized arrays 2016-09-19 16:16:24 +02:00
Dmitry Vyukov
7690667267 sys: specify resources in text descriptions
Currently to add a new resource one needs to modify multiple source files,
which complicates descirption of new system calls.
Move resource descriptions from source code to text desciptions.
2016-08-27 18:27:50 +02:00
Dmitry Vyukov
a71989d077 sys: fix links and formatting in README.md 2016-08-26 15:36:17 +02:00
Dmitry Vyukov
78553d2247 sys: update README to describe the new 2-step generation process 2016-08-26 15:20:36 +02:00
Dmitry Vyukov
0d0fbbe73f overhaul syscall description generation process
This splits generation process into two phases:
1. Extract values of constants from linux kernel sources.
2. Generate Go code.

Constant values are checked in.
The advantage is that the second phase is now completely independent
from linux source files, kernel version, presence of headers for
particular drivers, etc. This allows to change what Go code we generate
any time without access to all kernel headers (which in future won't be
limited to only upstream headers).

Constant extraction process does require proper kernel sources,
but this can be done only once by the person who added the driver
and has access to the required sources. Then the constant values
are checked in for others to use.
Consant extraction process is per-file/per-arch. That is,
if I am adding a driver that is not present upstream and that
works only on a single arch, I will check in constants only for
that driver and for that arch.
2016-08-26 07:09:25 +02:00