Re: [PATCH 49/50] mars: generic pre-patch for mars

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed Jul 02 2014 - 09:27:17 EST


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 01:24:00AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > I will prepare a new version ASAP.
> >
> > Is the asmlinkage one of the reasons?
>
> No. The wholesale exporting of all 300+ syscall functions for no
> apparent reasoning is the reason.

Using syscalls or syscall-like functionality from kernel code generally
is a bad idea. Every single use needs a clear rationale in the patch
description. Which do not seem to exist at all for the series, so in
it's current form it'll go straight to the trash bin anyway.

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