netdev - Re: [PATCH 7/7] ns: Wire up the setns system call

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Date:	Sat, 07 May 2011 23:02:38 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] ns: Wire up the setns system call

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 19:19 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 19:25 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> v2: Most of the architecture support added by Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>
> >> v3: ported to v2.6.36-rc4 by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> >> v4: Moved wiring up of the system call to another patch
> >> v5: ported to v2.6.39-rc6
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> >
> > We already have several syscalls queued up for parisc:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/parisc-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/misc
> >
> > So if you could make this patch over them (or over linux-next), that
> > would help the merge process.
> 
> I will take a look. I was rather pleasantly surprised that no other
> system call conflicts had shown up before now.
> 
> This is unfortunately one of those areas where it is almost impossible
> to avoid conflicts.
> 
> Do you know if there is any chance that the parisc tree might get
> rebased or anything horrible like that?

It shouldn't unless one of the wire ups is wrong and I have to replace
it, but I think the possibility of that will be minute.

> If not I think I will just pull the hunk of the parisc tree with the syscalls
> e38f5b745075828ac51b12c8c95c85a7be4a3ec7...2e7bad5f34b5beed47542490c760ed26574e38ba
> into my tree so I don't have to worry about merge order.

Yes, that should work fine.

James


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