From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:49:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220395798.13010.181.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902221208.GA11712@lixom.net>
> Then don't try to reserve a system call to be used only by an out-of-tree,
> proprietary kernel extension. Which your kernel change in essence is
> until it's released.
>
> Would we accept a system call number reservation that was submitted by,
> say, nVidia? No? Well, there you go.
>
> It's really that simple.
Well, except that nvidia has no intention to release :-)
Anyway, it's a moot point, I have the answer I needed...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-02 5:48 [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 12:08 ` Josh Boyer
2008-09-02 21:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 18:06 ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 21:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 21:30 ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 21:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-02 22:12 ` Olof Johansson
2008-09-02 22:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-09-02 23:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 0:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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