Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Reserve syscall number 319

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:46:35 +0200

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Yes. Merge your code or live with the pain of things changing
> > underneath. Period.
> 
> Pain isn't for me :-) It's for those writing userspace stuff based on
> my kernel changing all the time :-)

They can wait until it's released.  And there's of course no guarantee
that your syscall will stand public review.