linux-kernel - Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:05 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7

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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