Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:06 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:48:45PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Some stuff I'm working on that isn't released yet needs
> > a syscall number but I can't say what it's for until I
> > get permission to release it :-)
> > 
> > In the meantime, it would be nice if a number could be set
> > aside so the tools being developped to use that stuff don't
> > all need to be updated when things are eventually released.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> > 
> > I wonder if I'll get hanged for that one :-)
> 
> Yes. Merge your code or live with the pain of things changing
> underneath. Period.

Pain isn't for me :-) It's for those writing userspace stuff based on
my kernel changing all the time :-)

Ben.