From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261239AbVF1Tmy (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:42:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261234AbVF1Tml (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:42:41 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:53952 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261219AbVF1TmX (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:42:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:42:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Read only syscall tables for x86_64 and i386 Message-ID: <20050628194215.GB32240@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Christoph Lameter , Jeremy Maitin-Shepard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <87oe9q70no.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <87hdfi704d.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.