On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:10:01PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: > > > I'm not pushing for any official convention, just what seems good taste. > > In cases like this, conventions (consistency and best practices) are > very important. > > > Less code added, less bloat. Architecture independent, no need to update > > all system call tables everywhere (all archs, libc versions and strace). > > Two files changed, instead of 7 (which only hooks up x86). > > Thanks for explaining. Those do seem like good reasons to use a ioctl > instead of a new syscall. No, make it a syscall, it's more obvious and will be documented much better. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
