Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 -- sys_fallocate

["Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:05:31PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Alternatively I can push them directly to Linus along with other ext4
> > patches.  We can drop the s390 patch if Martin or Heiko wants to wire
> > it up themselves.
> 
> Yes, please drop the s390 patch. In general it seems to be better if only
> one architecture gets a syscall wired up initially and let other arches
> follow later.
> 
> Just wondering if the x86_64 compat syscall gets ever fixed? I think
> I mentioned already three or four times to Amit that it is broken.
> Or is it that nobody cares? Dunno..

Last time it was brought up was when TAKE5 of the patchset was posted
and I had planned to fix this in the TAKE6 - which didn't happen since
there was no final descision on the mode flags.
Anyhow, the x86_64 compat syscall has already been fixed in the ext4
patch queue.
I will repost all the patches rebased on 2.6.22 (as they are in the
ext4 patch queue), since these have already been dropped from -mm.
 
> In addition there used to be a somewhat inofficial rule that new syscalls
> have to come with a test program, so people can easily test if they wired
> up the syscall correctly.

Ok. Will work on a small testcase and post it soon.

--
Regards,
Amit Arora
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