[PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319
Olof Johansson
olof at lixom.net
Wed Sep 3 07:30:44 EST 2008
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 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 :-)
Lame excuse. Merge the code.
-Olof
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