On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 01:46 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Yes. Merge your code or live with the pain of things changing > > > underneath. Period. > > > > Pain isn't for me :-) It's for those writing userspace stuff based on > > my kernel changing all the time :-) > > They can wait until it's released. And there's of course no guarantee > that your syscall will stand public review.
Yup. Definitely. I'm not even 100% sure we'll stick to a syscall in the long run. In the meantime, for internal purposes, it's easy enough to use an unused number to avoid further changes or stick a trampoline in the vdso :-) Cheers, Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
