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

Andrew Morton
2004-10-20T18:01:25Z

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.