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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 06:34:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: async-io API registration for 2.5.29
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> this patch against 2.5.29 adds the async-io API as from latest Ben's
> patch.

Why not make the io_submit system call number 251 like it apparently is
already in 2.4.x? We're really close to it anyway, so if you just re-order
the system calls a bit (and leave 250 as sys_ni_syscall), you're basically
there.

Other than that it looks good.

		Linus

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