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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com>,
	"Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop page cache of a single file
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 03:03:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061228030346.6ea46d01.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061228104508.GA20596@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:45:08 +0000
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> The kernel community needs to get a grip with the implementation of
> new syscalls - we need a process where architecture maintainers get
> to review the arguments _prior_ to them being accepted into the kernel.
> That way we can avoid silly architecture specific syscall changes like
> this.

hm, well, actually, sys_fadvise64_64 was discussed on linux-arch when
it went in. 

(Gad, it was over three years ago! - glibc support should be pretty widespread
now)

That's about as much discussion as these things will get.  And this assumes
that people remember to mention it.  Mental note made.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-28 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-28  3:17 Zhang, Yanmin
2006-12-28  3:49 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <367290328.14058@ustc.edu.cn>
2006-12-28  7:19     ` Fengguang Wu
2006-12-28 10:29     ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-28 10:45       ` Russell King
2006-12-28 11:03         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
     [not found]       ` <367303459.19953@ustc.edu.cn>
2006-12-28 10:57         ` Fengguang Wu
2007-01-28  7:08 ` Vaidyanathan Srinivasan

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