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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:28:12 -0700
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Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com>,
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> w=
rote:
>
> I'm still waiting for Uli if he really insists on new syscall vectors
> for the same structure. =A0Using that one ST_VALID bit seems a lot ea=
sier
> to me.

Umm. Uli doesn't get to choose kernel system call conventions. It
matters not one whit whether he insists on new system calls or not,
it's not going to happen.

             Linus