From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, mingo@elte.hu,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] futex requeueing feature, futex-requeue-2.5.69-D3 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 May 2003 07:56:27 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 18:57:39 +1000
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In message <20030520075627.A28002@infradead.org> you write:
> On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > yes, but the damage has been done already, and now we've got to start the
> > slow wait for the old syscall to flush out of our tree.
> 
> Actually it should go away before 2.6.0.  sys_futex never was part of a
> released stable kernel so having the old_ version around is silly.

Hmm, in that case I'd say "just break it", and I'd be all in favour of
demuxing the syscall.

But I think vendors have backported and released futexes, which is why
Ingo did this...

(Although you might be right about "by the time 2.6 is out" 8)
Rusty.
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