Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:43:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:43:43 -0400 Received: from SCULLY.TRAFFORD.DEMENTIA.ORG ([128.2.100.230]:59348 "EHLO scully.trafford.dementia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:43:42 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:48:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Derrick J Brashear To: Christoph Hellwig cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PATCH: AFS system call registration function (was Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3) In-Reply-To: <20021013141135.A15708@infradead.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1156 Lines: 34 On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:58:29PM -0400, shadow@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: > > And then, xyzzy, and nothing happened. > > Anyhow, this implements more or less exactly what's in 2.4.19 for nfs, > > and adds the necessary wrapper for s390x. > > Please don't put it into the NFS files. what NFS files? It changes sys call tables, adds a header which is completely new, and augments fs/filesystems.c, which in my source is: "table of configured filesystems" > And I'd suggest to use u32 > instead of long for the interface, to simplify 32bit compatiblity. Ok. > Also, what exactly is this call doing? I seems to be yet another > multiplexer syscall and we already have more than enough of those. Who wants to share theirs with us? Note that it was already reserved for us (look at the comments in the sys call table diffs) and we've been using it for years. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/