From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261422AbUEMFb4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:31:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263784AbUEMFbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:31:55 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([207.189.100.168]:59835 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261422AbUEMFbz (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:31:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:21:37 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Willy Tarreau Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , davidm@hpl.hp.com, rddunlap@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, drepper@redhat.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6 Message-ID: <20040513052137.GM1397@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Willy Tarreau , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , davidm@hpl.hp.com, rddunlap@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, drepper@redhat.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <40A2517C.4040903@redhat.com> <20040512143233.0ee0405a.rddunlap@osdl.org> <16546.41076.572371.307153@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040512152815.76280eac.akpm@osdl.org> <16546.42537.765495.231960@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040512161603.44c50cec.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513053051.A5286@infradead.org> <20040513050515.GA578@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040513050515.GA578@alpha.home.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:05:15AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > And why not definitely assign sort of a "multiplexed syscall" entry, > a la sys_socketcall() ? It could be shared by lots of non-mainline projects > and have a greater chance of being stable along the time. That already exists and is every bit as hated as it should be. It's called ioctl(). -- wli