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 - 10:38:27 EST


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:33:57AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> In message <20030430162739.A9255@infradead.org>,Christoph Hellwig writes:
> >So fix the AFS code up to use a routine for each subcall that
> >can still map to pioctl for !linux. After that we can continue the
> >discussion on how these calls are best implemented on linux.
>
> because time is precious its quite a bit easier to fix one spot in
> the linux kernel than to fix a hundred or so in the afs code.

It might be easier but it's not the correct fix. I've we had done what's
easier all the time Linux would look like SCO Unix or IRIX now..
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