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

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Date:	Wed, 2 Jul 2014 01:24:00 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Thomas Schoebel-Theuer <tst@...oebel-theuer.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Schöbel-Theuer <tst@...d1.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 49/50] mars: generic pre-patch for mars


A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top

On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:19:31AM +0200, Thomas Schoebel-Theuer 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.

> If so, some additional wrappers like vfs_* or kernel_* would have to be
> written. This would also complicate portability between the out-of-tree
> and the in-tree version of MARS (which I have to maintain in parallel at
> least for some years).

Maintaining out of tree code is not our problem, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h
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