From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:50:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Message-Id: <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> List-Id: References: <3506.1098283455@redhat.com> <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@m17n.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Hi Linus, Andrew, > > > > The attached patch adds syscalls for almost all archs (everything barring > > m68knommu which is in a real mess, and i386 which already has it). > > > > It also adds 32->64 compatibility where appropriate. > > Umm, that patch added the damn multiplexer that had been vetoed multiple > times. Why did this happen? Fifteen new syscalls was judged excessive and the keyfs interface was judged slow and bloaty. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:53:33 +0100 (BST) Received: from fw.osdl.org ([IPv6:::ffff:65.172.181.6]:20625 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:53:26 +0100 Received: from bix (build.pdx.osdl.net [172.20.1.2]) by mail.osdl.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id i9KHqI923373; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:52:18 -0700 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 10:50:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@m17n.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Message-Id: <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> References: <3506.1098283455@redhat.com> <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 6133 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: akpm@osdl.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Hi Linus, Andrew, > > > > The attached patch adds syscalls for almost all archs (everything barring > > m68knommu which is in a real mess, and i386 which already has it). > > > > It also adds 32->64 compatibility where appropriate. > > Umm, that patch added the damn multiplexer that had been vetoed multiple > times. Why did this happen? Fifteen new syscalls was judged excessive and the keyfs interface was judged slow and bloaty.