rtas syscall

Rusty Russell rusty at au1.ibm.com
Tue Jan 20 11:45:02 EST 2004


In message <1074539705.23918.30.camel at verve> you write:
> Paul, Rusty, Everyone-
>
> A month or two ago, I pushed an implementation of an RTAS system call as
> proposed by Rusty and Paul to Ameslab 2.6.  I picked a syscall number of
> 255 for this, because it was free.  How can I ensure that this number
> will be reserved upstream for my syscall?

Submit the syscall reservation as a patch, or just send a mail as you
have done.  It's not unusual for syscall reservation patches to go in
upstream long before the actual implementation.

Cheers,
Rusty.
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