Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:23:53 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: AFS system call registration function (was Re: Two fixes for 2.4.19-pre5-ac3) |
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On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:58:00PM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote: > The version we have now uses long, so... (read on)
I know..
> we have people with deployed utilities which call the afs system call, > because, well, it's the AFS system call. it would be good to maintain > compatibility with those, which means we should > a) keep using the same system call if we can > b) if so, keep using "long".
AFS is currently not in mainline. You request a new feature, in this case an optional syscall that only was reserved previously. In general we don|t merge random stuff asis in the kernel just because it happens to exist. There is no reason you canb't add a sane API for openafs 1.3
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