From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:18:50 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Message-Id: <20041020181850.GA23979@infradead.org> List-Id: References: <3506.1098283455@redhat.com> <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , 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 On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:50:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. Maybe 15 syscalls just means the API is goddamn awfull and we certainly shouldn't merge it as-is.