[OpenAFS-devel] Re: [OpenAFS] 2.6 kernel support anytime soon? Workarounds?

[chas williams (contractor)]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.58-035.0405101332280.8116@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derr
ick J Brashear writes:
>i'm sort of curious what spirit having a system call that no one's
>willing to provide an interface to register kernel code to handle it is.

i suspect that if you put the syscall bits from openafs into the linux
kernel and did it the 'right' way meaning that the syscall is not just
a catchall, it would be accepted.   the kernel developers dont want to
see:

	afs_syscall(u1, u2, u3, u4) {
		(*call_afs_syscall)(u1, u2, u3, u4);
	}

i believe someone had this discussion with them at one point.