On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:50:27AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi Linus, Andrew, > > > > > > The attached patch adds syscalls for almost all archs (everything barring > > > m68knommu which is in a real mess, and i386 which already has it). > > > > > > It also adds 32->64 compatibility where appropriate. > > > > Umm, that patch added the damn multiplexer that had been vetoed multiple > > times. Why did this happen? > > Fifteen new syscalls was judged excessive and the keyfs interface was > judged slow and bloaty. Maybe 15 syscalls just means the API is goddamn awfull and we certainly shouldn't merge it as-is.
