Re: [PATCH][RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Nov 29 2004 - 10:18:36 EST


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:11:58AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Before you just ignore me and throw me to the dogs, hear me out. Please!
>
> I've seen previous attempts to get dynamic system calls into the kernel
> and they just get dumped, but usually with good reason. They require a
> change to all architectures quite drastically and is usually a problem
> implementing them for the module to use them.

Actually they were dumped because dynamically syscalls are a really bad
idea, not because of implementation issues.

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