Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:40:05 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7 |
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On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:31:55PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:03PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Sure, I'll try to (btw, where I should send it to? And in which > > format novadays mans are written? In plain old troff or some > > human readable asciidocs?) And... should I post man page > > on LKML as well? > > Manpages are written in troff with -man and you would add the ASCII output > of the manpage to the commit log and send the troff source at some > point to linux-man. >
OK, I see, thanks.
> The basic problem is if this interface is at the right level of abstraction. > I have some doubts on that. It seems like a long term maintenance nightmare to > me. It may be better to put the loop that would call this into the kernel. >
Hmm, ie selftest right in kenel?
> > > > Hmm.. Andi, I seem not following. And? > > It just doesn't seem like a very useful thing to compare.
I see.
Cyrill
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