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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:50:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> 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.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20 14:44 [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs David Howells
2004-10-20 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 17:50   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-20 18:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 15:49 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2004-10-20 16:16   ` David Howells
2004-10-20 17:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-10-20 22:01 ` David S. Miller
2004-10-20 22:56   ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2004-10-20 23:04     ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 David S. Miller
2004-10-20 23:25       ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Andi Kleen
2004-10-20 23:41         ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 David S. Miller
2004-10-21  0:10           ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Andi Kleen
2004-10-21  8:03           ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-21  1:55       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-10-21  8:47       ` [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Jan-Benedict Glaw

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