Comment 14 for bug 1858461

Andrew,

Thanks for your input regarding linked patch. The patch is still under review, and it is normal for patches under review to perhaps have some faults, and that is improved in the process of reviewing - that is, among other things, one of benefits of open source development. I will take into account your opinion, and fix the patch in the next version of the series.

As far your ideas on other improvements, my advice is to submit them to the QEMU devel list - possibly as a short series of patches. Try to organize your changes in several patches, each representing a logical unit. For example:

   - one patch could be titled "linux-user: mips: Refactor enumerating of syscall numbers"
   - the second patch could be "linux-user: Automate updating syscall numbers" (but, yes, this should work preferably for all targets, as Peter said)
   - the third patch could be "linux-user: Fix execution of program 'emerge'" (I am not sure if there is a separate portion of code that fixes that)
   - etc. - whatever you think should be fixed/improved

As Thomas said, follow https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch . For each patch, provide background information, problem that is fixed with the patch, and why is the way you propose good.