From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Read only syscall tables for x86_64 and i386
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:52:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vf3y2qzz.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050628194215.GB32240@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:42:15 +0100")
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:31:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:
>>
>> > It would probably be better implemented with a more generic mechanism,
>> > but I don't believe anyone is working on that now, so it looks like AFS
>> > will continue to use a special syscall.
>>
>> We could put an #ifdef CONFIG_AFS into the syscall table definition?
>> That makes it explicit.
> No. AFS is utterly wrong, and the sooner we make it fail to work the
> better.
Heh, well that is nice, but breaking it will only mean that I and every
other AFS user will have to revert the patch that breaks it;
furthermore, many distributions that provide binary kernels will
probably also have to revert the patch because many of their users will
want to use AFS.
--
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 18:47 [PATCH] Read only syscall tables for x86_64 and i386 Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 18:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28 19:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 19:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <87oe9q70no.fsf@jbms.ath.cx>
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506281218030.1454@graphe.net>
2005-06-28 19:27 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-28 19:31 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-28 19:41 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-28 19:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-28 19:52 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard [this message]
2005-06-28 20:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28 20:23 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2005-06-28 19:47 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-06-28 20:00 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.62.0506281141050.959@graphe.net.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-06-28 19:33 ` Andi Kleen
2005-06-28 19:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-06-29 0:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-06-29 2:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-01 20:10 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-07-01 20:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-01 20:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-07-01 21:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-07-01 20:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
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