[PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Sep 3 07:06:15 EST 2008
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 13:06 -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:48:45PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Some stuff I'm working on that isn't released yet needs
> > a syscall number but I can't say what it's for until I
> > get permission to release it :-)
> >
> > In the meantime, it would be nice if a number could be set
> > aside so the tools being developped to use that stuff don't
> > all need to be updated when things are eventually released.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> > ---
> >
> > I wonder if I'll get hanged for that one :-)
>
> 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 :-)
Ben.
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