Re: [PATCH] add a stub by which a module can bind to the AFS syscall

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:57:22AM -0400, chas williams wrote:
> i dont believe it needs to be a variadic (the afs syscall will/uses the
> first params).  however, the syscall interface for afs predates linux.
> changing to a different interface just for linux kernels seems somewhat
> costly (programmers time) when this existing interface has been well
> tested and debugged on several other operating systems.

We need to repeat a mistake others did has never been a valid
argument in linux devlopment..  Anyway, it's really hard to judge about
this before seeing the actual implementation instead of just saying
here's a stub I need.