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Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 19:31:24 +0000
From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] Assigning syscall numbers for testing
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 07:05:31PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > it.  However, I think it needs to be allocated *regardless* of whether Linus 
> > takes the patch into his kernel.  Even if the patch is simply used outside 
> > Linus's kernel, it still needs the allocation to truly be safe.
> 
> Negative numbers are safe until Linus has 2^31 syscalls, at which point
> quite frankly we would have a few other problems including the fact that
> the syscall table won't fit in kernel mapped memory.

Please leave the allocation of the exact number space to the port
maintainers discression.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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