Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751272AbVLPBkF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:40:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751273AbVLPBkF (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:40:05 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:3299 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751272AbVLPBkC (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:40:02 -0500 Message-ID: <43A21AED.5020700@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:39:57 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulrich Drepper CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] *at syscalls: Intro References: <200512152249.jBFMnXAA016747@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <43A20B0B.5090205@pobox.com> <43A2187B.2050909@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <43A2187B.2050909@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "srv2.dvmed.net", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> It would be nice to add the additional argument to path_lookup(), >> rather than calling do_path_lookup() everywhere. > > > path_lookup is unfortunately exported. If breaking the ABI is no issue > I'll change it. [...] Content analysis details: (0.1 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [69.134.188.146 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 22 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> It would be nice to add the additional argument to path_lookup(), >> rather than calling do_path_lookup() everywhere. > > > path_lookup is unfortunately exported. If breaking the ABI is no issue > I'll change it. Yep, I saw it was exported. I would prefer to change the API, but my preference doesn't carry much weight: I have no idea if there are any important out-of-tree users or not. Jeff - 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/