All of lore.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:49:58 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220395798.13010.181.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902221208.GA11712@lixom.net>


> Then don't try to reserve a system call to be used only by an out-of-tree,
> proprietary kernel extension. Which your kernel change in essence is
> until it's released.
> 
> Would we accept a system call number reservation that was submitted by,
> say, nVidia? No? Well, there you go.
> 
> It's really that simple.

Well, except that nvidia has no intention to release :-)

Anyway, it's a moot point, I have the answer I needed...

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02  5:48 [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 12:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-02 21:02   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 18:06 ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 21:06   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 21:30     ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 21:49       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 22:12         ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 22:49           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-09-02 23:46     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03  0:58       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1220395798.13010.181.camel@pasglop \
    --to=benh@kernel.crashing.org \
    --cc=linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org \
    --cc=olof@lixom.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.