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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.