From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/3] initramfs: cleanups
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:02:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008301402.23498.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1283102928-3051-1-git-send-email-namhyung@gmail.com>
On Sunday 29 August 2010, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> First two of this patchset wrap all of syscall invocations with kern_sys_*()
> helper functions which does nasty address space conversions for you. This
> idea was suggested by Arnd Bergmann. Last one tries to implement above idea
> - calling internel functions directly - in favour of kernel config option
> even though I'm not sure this is right thing. :-(
I think we can safely say that we do not want the config option, we should
do one option or the other. Since Al already opposed implementing the calls
using low-level VFS operations, that's probably not going to happen.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-29 17:28 [RFC v2 PATCH 0/3] initramfs: cleanups Namhyung Kim
2010-08-29 17:28 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 1/3] init: add sys-wrapper.h Namhyung Kim
2010-08-30 12:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 14:17 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-29 17:28 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 2/3] initramfs: use kern_sys_* wrappers instead of syscall Namhyung Kim
2010-08-29 17:28 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 3/3] init: introduce CONFIG_USE_INIT_SYSCALL_AS_KERNEL_ROUTINE Namhyung Kim
2010-08-30 12:02 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-08-30 14:05 ` [RFC v2 PATCH 0/3] initramfs: cleanups Namhyung Kim
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