Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 02:39:52 EST


Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:06:08AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > So if kexec could actually get a reserved system call number that
> > would be the best solution I have seen in this thread.
>
> Could you please show the syscall we should reserve, e.g. it's API.
> We had quite some histroy of syscalls that got reserved and the real
> submission was rejected neverless because the API was broken.

The (old) kexec patch I have here implements the API which is described at
http://lwn.net/Articles/15468/. I doubt if it changed?
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