Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268846AbUJUJLN (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:11:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268854AbUJTSUV (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:20:21 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:28169 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269003AbUJTSS4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:18:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:18:50 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Christoph Hellwig , dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@m17n.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs Message-ID: <20041020181850.GA23979@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@m17n.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk, parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-390@vm.marist.edu, linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <3506.1098283455@redhat.com> <20041020152957.GA21774@infradead.org> <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041020105027.54bf9e89.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 24 On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:50:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > Hi Linus, Andrew, > > > > > > The attached patch adds syscalls for almost all archs (everything barring > > > m68knommu which is in a real mess, and i386 which already has it). > > > > > > It also adds 32->64 compatibility where appropriate. > > > > Umm, that patch added the damn multiplexer that had been vetoed multiple > > times. Why did this happen? > > Fifteen new syscalls was judged excessive and the keyfs interface was > judged slow and bloaty. Maybe 15 syscalls just means the API is goddamn awfull and we certainly shouldn't merge it as-is. - 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/