Re: [Linux-ia64] Add reserved number for security syscall

Greg KH
2002-05-20T17:59:22Z

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:17:33PM -0700, richard offer wrote:
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> Please apply the attached patch (against 2.4.18) to reserve a syscall
> number for the security interface.
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> A number has already been reserved and accepted by Linus for the i386,
> alpha and cris architectures, at the time the reservation was requested,
> none of the LSM developers had IA64 machines so it slipped through the
> cracks.

Not true, I have access to ia64 hardware, and have successfully run LSM
modified kernels on them in the past. I was merely waiting for the LSM
code to make it into the mainline kernel before bothering the other arch
maintainers.

Thanks David for accepting this patch and reserving a number for us.

greg k-h