On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:45:08 +0000
Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The kernel community needs to get a grip with the implementation of
> new syscalls - we need a process where architecture maintainers get
> to review the arguments _prior_ to them being accepted into the kernel.
> That way we can avoid silly architecture specific syscall changes like
> this.

hm, well, actually, sys_fadvise64_64 was discussed on linux-arch when
it went in. 

(Gad, it was over three years ago! - glibc support should be pretty widespread
now)

That's about as much discussion as these things will get.  And this assumes
that people remember to mention it.  Mental note made.
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