Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 0/3] initramfs: cleanups

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sunday 29 August 2010, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> First two of this patchset wrap all of syscall invocations with kern_sys_*()
> helper functions which does nasty address space conversions for you. This
> idea was suggested by Arnd Bergmann. Last one tries to implement above idea
> - calling internel functions directly - in favour of kernel config option
> even though I'm not sure this is right thing. :-(

I think we can safely say that we do not want the config option, we should
do one option or the other. Since Al already opposed implementing the calls
using low-level VFS operations, that's probably not going to happen.

	Arnd
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