linux-kernel - Re: patch series moving compat syscalls from fs/compat.c

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:57:12 +1000
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: patch series moving compat syscalls from fs/compat.c

Hi Al,

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 01:55:30 +0100 Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 	FWIW, the same kind of stuff had been done before (e.g. compat
> variants of readv/writev moved to fs/read_write.c, compat aio syscalls
> to fs/aio.c, etc.) with no objections from anybody.

OK.  I guess I was just suprised by this series out of nowhere.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell