From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:58:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220403522.13010.189.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902234635.GA863@lst.de>
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 01:46 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Yes. Merge your code or live with the pain of things changing
> > > underneath. Period.
> >
> > Pain isn't for me :-) It's for those writing userspace stuff based on
> > my kernel changing all the time :-)
>
> They can wait until it's released. And there's of course no guarantee
> that your syscall will stand public review.
Yup. Definitely. I'm not even 100% sure we'll stick to a syscall in
the long run. In the meantime, for internal purposes, it's easy enough
to use an unused number to avoid further changes or stick a trampoline
in the vdso :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-03 0:59 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
2008-09-02 23:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 0:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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