Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs

Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-21T09:11:13Z

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:50:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Linus, Andrew,
> > >
> > > The attached patch adds syscalls for almost all archs (everything barring
> > > m68knommu which is in a real mess, and i386 which already has it).
> > >
> > > It also adds 32->64 compatibility where appropriate.
> >
> > Umm, that patch added the damn multiplexer that had been vetoed multiple
> > times. Why did this happen?
>
> Fifteen new syscalls was judged excessive and the keyfs interface was
> judged slow and bloaty.

Maybe 15 syscalls just means the API is goddamn awfull and we certainly
shouldn't merge it as-is.