From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: chas williams <chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:02:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430160239.A8956@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304301457.h3UEvMGi023283@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>; from chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil on Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0400
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> i dont believe it needs to be a variadic (the afs syscall will/uses the
> first params). however, the syscall interface for afs predates linux.
> changing to a different interface just for linux kernels seems somewhat
> costly (programmers time) when this existing interface has been well
> tested and debugged on several other operating systems.
We need to repeat a mistake others did has never been a valid
argument in linux devlopment.. Anyway, it's really hard to judge about
this before seeing the actual implementation instead of just saying
here's a stub I need.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-30 14:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-30 13:44 [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall David Howells
2003-04-30 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 14:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-04-30 14:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 14:57 ` chas williams
2003-04-30 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-04-30 15:13 ` chas williams
2003-04-30 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 15:33 ` chas williams
2003-04-30 15:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 15:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-04-30 15:42 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-04-30 15:56 ` viro
2003-05-08 14:01 ` David Howells
2003-04-30 15:30 ` David Howells
2003-04-30 15:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-04-30 18:07 ` Jan Harkes
2003-04-30 18:19 ` Trond Myklebust
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