From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263752AbUEMFRJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:17:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263778AbUEMFRJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:17:09 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:60426 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263752AbUEMFRH (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2004 01:17:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 07:05:15 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , 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 Message-ID: <20040513050515.GA578@alpha.home.local> References: <40A243C8.401@redhat.com> <40A2517C.4040903@redhat.com> <20040512143233.0ee0405a.rddunlap@osdl.org> <16546.41076.572371.307153@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040512152815.76280eac.akpm@osdl.org> <16546.42537.765495.231960@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040512161603.44c50cec.akpm@osdl.org> <20040513053051.A5286@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040513053051.A5286@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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