Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:31:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:03PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Sure, I'll try to (btw, where I should send it to? And in which
> > format novadays mans are written? In plain old troff or some
> > human readable asciidocs?) And... should I post man page
> > on LKML as well?
> 
> Manpages are written in troff with -man and you would add the ASCII output
> of the manpage to the commit log and send the troff source at some
> point to linux-man.
>

OK, I see, thanks.

> The basic problem is if this interface is at the right level of abstraction.
> I have some doubts on that. It seems like a long term maintenance nightmare to 
> me. It may be better to put the loop that would call this into the kernel.
> 

Hmm, ie selftest right in kenel?

> > 
> > Hmm.. Andi, I seem not following. And?
> 
> It just doesn't seem like a very useful thing to compare.

I see.

	Cyrill
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