On Wed, 2004-10-20 16:04:50 -0700, David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message <20041020160450.0914270b.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 00:56:25 +0200 > Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote: *VAX hacker's hat on* > I disagree quite strongly. One major frustration for users of > non-x86 platforms is that functionality is often missing for some > time that we can make trivial to keep in sync. Full ACK. > Simply put, if you're not watching the tree in painstaking detail > every day, you miss all of these enhancements. Right; and these missing enhancements will cause extra-pain when they're used some time later from core code. That is, you missed the feature while it was discusses/accepted and need to put it in place later on. So you've got to do extra searching etc. > The knowledge should come from the person putting the changes into > the tree, therefore it gets done once and this makes it so that > the other platform maintainers will find out about it automatically > next time they update their tree. Here's my proposal: $ mkdir ./Documentation/new_enhancements_to_implement $ cat ./Documentation/new_enhancements_to_implement/new_key_syscalls << EOF > Dear Architecture Maintailers, > > please add these four new cryptographic key functions to your syscall > table. It's quite easy; just extend the ./include/arch-xxx/unistd.h > for four new defines and then add them to your ./arch/xxx/kernel/entry.S > file. For reference, here's my i386 patch doing this: > > diff -Nurp > --- path-old/to/file/one > +++ path-new/to/file/one > text > -del > +add > more text > > > Thanks, your keychain hacker:-) > EOF $ This way, all arch maintainers just *see* what needs to be done and get a small introduction on how to do that. I'd *really* like to see that! That would particularly help those that cannot do full-time hacking on their port (like us VAX hackers:-) MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
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