From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Balbir Singh <balbir_soni@yahoo.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nice values for kernel modules
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 13:52:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020316135247.A31434@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16358.1016282075@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161300300.1089-100000@einstein.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161300300.1089-100000@einstein.homenet>; from tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk on Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:04:16PM +0000
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 01:04:16PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> There are lots of good reasons why it has been exported, e.g. ability to
> replace some system calls while leaving overall Linux personality (i.e.
> without switching to an ABI emulation).
No, that never was a good reason and has been removed by Arjan and me
in current Linux-ABI versions.
I'm all for removing it, too.
> Also, ability to call those system calls from a module which are not
> exported individually.
If syscalls are supposed to be used by modules they should be exported
and have proper prototypes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-16 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 23:59 Nice values for kernel modules Balbir Singh
2002-03-16 9:51 ` tigran
2002-03-16 10:00 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 10:41 ` Paul Mackerras
2002-03-16 11:27 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-16 12:34 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-16 13:04 ` Tigran Aivazian
2002-03-16 13:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-03-16 17:42 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-16 15:48 ` John Levon
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161126130.1090-100000@einstein.homenet.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <16358.1016282075@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20020316154848.GA82190@compsoc.man.ac.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-16 16:03 ` Andi Kleen
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203161300300.1089-100000@einstein.homenet.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <E16mICa-0006mr-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-03-16 22:03 ` Andi Kleen
2002-03-25 7:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-03-25 8:20 ` John Levon
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