On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > Yes, I've seen these but since Al's patches are not in mainline, I don't > > want to add additional dependencies to the arm64 patches (currently > > based on 3.6-rc4). Once they get into mainline, I'll add a patch that > > converts arm64 to the generic functions above. > > > > For kernel_execve(), I think I can simplify it further and not rely on > > Al's patches (similar to other architectures doing an SVC from kernel): > > Hmm, I thought one of the reasons for Al to do his series was to discourage > people from doing syscalls from kernel space, but I may be misremembering > things. Al? If that was the aim, I'm happy to change the code similar to the arch/arm one. But as I said I would wait until Al's patches get into mainline. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
