From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262323AbTD3Pik (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:38:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262324AbTD3Pik (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:38:40 -0400 Received: from node-d-1ea6.a2000.nl ([62.195.30.166]:19440 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262323AbTD3Pij (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:38:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: chas williams Cc: Christoph Hellwig , David Howells , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200304301533.h3UFXvGi023489@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> References: <200304301533.h3UFXvGi023489@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-4RANHtqwxo4xhZnodTG5" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1051717845.1403.16.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 (1.2.4-2) Date: 30 Apr 2003 17:50:45 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-4RANHtqwxo4xhZnodTG5 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 17:33, chas williams wrote: > In message <20030430162739.A9255@infradead.org>,Christoph Hellwig writes: > >So fix the AFS code up to use a routine for each subcall that > >can still map to pioctl for !linux. After that we can continue the > >discussion on how these calls are best implemented on linux. >=20 > because time is precious its quite a bit easier to fix one spot in=20 > the linux kernel than to fix a hundred or so in the afs code. ehm no. There is no valid AFS code using this since there is no syscall yet ;) And it IS more work for linux, since 32 bit emulation on 64 bit machines will be a MAJOR pain if everything is this opaque. --=-4RANHtqwxo4xhZnodTG5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+r/DVxULwo51rQBIRAjdzAKCp7qiNRF6VCcJ+ZspI6X0KOGlKngCeOHsv GgimMQJ9jlFRx7tMu6/Jta0= =04af -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-4RANHtqwxo4xhZnodTG5--