From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 17:59:22 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Add reserved number for security syscall Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:17:33PM -0700, richard offer wrote: > > > Please apply the attached patch (against 2.4.18) to reserve a syscall > number for the security interface. > > > 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