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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 13/36] x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove
 in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:05:06PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_ioperm()
> syscall.

Why not do_ioperm or kernel_ioperm as for most other syscalls?