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From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls.
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:51:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081212155113.GO26095@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494287D4.2070909@redhat.com>

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:48:36PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hmm.  It is the argument ordering used by NetBSD, thats why I used that
> too.  It certainly should be the application-visible ordering.  We'll
> have glibc between apps and kernel though, so I think we can reorder the
> arguments at syscall level if that helps on these archs.  Cc'ing Ulrich
> Drepper for comments on that.

On the other hand, NetBSD have approximately 0% market share.
We shouldn't let them lock us into making a bad decision.  Is there
anyone other than NetBSD who has added these syscalls?

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 14:00 [PATCH v2] Add preadv and pwritev system calls Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 15:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-12 15:48   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 15:51     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2008-12-12 16:02       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 17:03         ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-12-12 18:21           ` Alan Cox
2008-12-12 19:02             ` Russell King
2008-12-12 18:29         ` Scott Lurndal
2008-12-12 19:07           ` Russell King
2008-12-12 19:56             ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 19:56               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 20:12               ` Russell King
2008-12-12 20:39                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-12 20:39                   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-14 18:19               ` Pavel Machek
2008-12-15 16:37         ` Jennifer Pioch
2008-12-15 20:43           ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-16  9:57             ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-17  1:45               ` [osol-code] " Dan Mick
2008-12-17  1:45                 ` Dan Mick
2008-12-12 19:47   ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-12 20:02     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-14 11:49   ` Heiko Carstens
2008-12-15  4:14   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-12-15  6:20     ` David Miller
2008-12-12 15:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-12 16:59 ` Russell King
2008-12-13  1:18 ` Michael Kerrisk

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