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Date:	Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:39:45 -0400
From:	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@....de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, rusty@...tcorp.com.au,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__

On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:06:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UML can be converted to use the syscall function provided by libc
> in order to call the host OS.

You're contemplating changing UML to do, e.g.
	syscall(NR_write, fd, buf, len)
instead of the current
	write(fd, buf,len)
?

That hardly seems like an improvement and it seems fairly unnecessary.

				Jeff
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