Re: deconflicting new syscall numbers for 6.11

Jason A. Donenfeld
2024-07-06T02:10:23Z

Hi again Linus,

On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 02:11:59AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> What I have in mind, IOW, isn't fanciness. But alright, let me run with
> where you're urging me and see where that takes things.
>
> > Side note: you could just stick the size as a constant in the vdso too.
>
> Yea, this sounds more like solution (4) from my last email. I'll give
> that a shot and see what it's like nuking the syscall. I'll ping here
> when v21 of the series is ready, and hopefully you like it more.

I'll spend the weekend doing my own code review and fixing things up and
working on commit messages and documentation and all that, but there are
now three simpler commits in here that implement what I have in mind
based on our discussion:

https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-rng/log/

The selftest code is the largest part of it. There's no more syscall. I
think it should be much more to your liking and seems like an alright
set of compromises. Hopefully that's a bit closer to the mark.

Jason