Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753910Ab0GGC3S (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:29:18 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47513 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114Ab0GGC3Q convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jul 2010 22:29:16 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100707014437.GA1851@infradead.org> References: <20100624131455.GA10441@laptop> <7897.1277531612@jrobl> <20100626093544.GA27715@infradead.org> <13226.1277556884@jrobl> <20100705205806.GA12517@cynthia.pants.nu> <6419.1278372690@jrobl> <20100706004550.GC12517@cynthia.pants.nu> <20100707014437.GA1851@infradead.org> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 19:28:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [rfc] new stat*fs-like syscall? From: Linus Torvalds To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Brad Boyer , "J. R. Okajima" , Nick Piggin , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Ulrich Drepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 660 Lines: 16 On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I'm still waiting for Uli if he really insists on new syscall vectors > for the same structure. ?Using that one ST_VALID bit seems a lot easier > to me. Umm. Uli doesn't get to choose kernel system call conventions. It matters not one whit whether he insists on new system calls or not, it's not going to happen. Linus -- 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/