On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 01:20:57PM +0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:29:47AM +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> > adds a redundant "reboot" argument
> 
> Herbert, I suggest you send a patch to Linus Torvalds replacing:
>   sys_reboot()

actually something similar was suggested by the parisc
maintainer, who suggested to use separate syscalls instead
of the syscall switch, but there _is_ something you clearly
miss ...

> with six new system calls:
>   sys_restart()
>   sys_halt()
>   sys_poweroff()
>   sys_cad_on()
>   sys_cad_off()
>   sys_restart()

we had a long discussion on irc, and agreed on the
current interface (don't you remember?) so why now
trying to change that interface again?

> as your interface design around here is clearly superior (!) to what
> everyone else is telling you is already the case.

I would understand if you would argue, that separate tools
must be triggered by different syscalls/states like a
vsreboot, vshelp, vswossname, but why do you think that
calling vshelper with ...

"reboot restart"        instead of      "restart"
"reboot halt"           instead of      "halt"
"reboot poweroff"       instead of      "poweroff"
...

superior to the other?

> > feel free to branch and/or provide vshelper kernel patches ...
> 
> Mark just provided patches.  Are *you* going to take them?

no.

best,
Herbert

>       -Paul
> -- 
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