Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 10:02:39 EST


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> i dont believe it needs to be a variadic (the afs syscall will/uses the
> first params). however, the syscall interface for afs predates linux.
> changing to a different interface just for linux kernels seems somewhat
> costly (programmers time) when this existing interface has been well
> tested and debugged on several other operating systems.

We need to repeat a mistake others did has never been a valid
argument in linux devlopment.. Anyway, it's really hard to judge about
this before seeing the actual implementation instead of just saying
here's a stub I need.
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