And the whole point of the reemoval is to not make adding syscalls
easy. Adding a syscall needs review and most often you actually want
a saner interface.
> How would they be done differently now? Multiple different syscalls?
Yes.
>
> I do know that Dave Miller has also complained about the sys_security
> call in the past, and the difficulties along the same lines as the
> ioctl 32bit problem. If we were to go to individual syscalls for every
> security function, this would go away.
Yes, doing the 32bit translation for a call where you don't actually
know what the arguments mean is impossible. See the 32bit ioctl
compatiblity mess.
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