Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

> I use the following calls:
> 
> sys_mknod
> sys_chown
> sys_umask
> sys_unlink
> 
> for creating/deleting /dev entries dynamically on driver
> loading/unloading. It allows me to acquire dynamic major
> number without devfs and external utility of any kind.

Well, duh. "Without devds and external utility" is a no-goal.
You set it, you screw trying to achieve it. It's like a well-known
Russian joke: "[...] We remove the adenoid tissue... through
the anal opening with a blowtorch".

> I use sys_write to output loading/device detection/diagnostic
> messages to process's stderr when appropriate. Yes, it may look as
> "wrong thing" but it uses only legal kernel mechanisms and it saves
> lots of time with e-mail support:
> /sbin/insmod driver verbose=1 2>&1 | mail -s 'it does not works' me@

And pray tell how is syslog different?

-- Pete