From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
davidm@hpl.hp.com, rddunlap@osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
drepper@redhat.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:05:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040513050515.GA578@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040513053051.A5286@infradead.org>
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:30:52AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 04:16:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > But if we need additional infrastructure to "add new syscalls via VDSO" then
> > this should be in the base kernel, even if it's empty, yes?
>
> Linus has vetoed dynamic syscall registration a few times. And I agree
> with him, dynamic syscalls are the best way to get completely crappy
> interfaces.
And why not definitely assign sort of a "multiplexed syscall" entry,
a la sys_socketcall() ? It could be shared by lots of non-mainline projects
and have a greater chance of being stable along the time.
Cheers,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-13 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-12 4:26 Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-12 5:00 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-05-12 6:18 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-12 15:33 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-05-12 15:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-12 16:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-05-12 16:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-12 21:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-12 22:08 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 22:28 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 22:33 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-12 23:16 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-12 23:27 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-13 4:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-13 5:05 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2004-05-13 5:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-05-13 5:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-13 6:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-13 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 6:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-13 7:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-13 7:37 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 7:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-13 8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 13:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-13 15:02 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-05-14 5:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-14 18:14 ` Adam Litke
2004-05-15 2:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2004-05-17 0:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-05-12 5:05 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
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