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From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:20:00 +0100
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Quoting Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>:
> Done!
>=20
> Updated on http://home.stny.rr.com/rostedt/dynamic as well as included
> in this email for ease. =20
>=20
> Now, I guess you can still get around this if the "Bad Vendor" were to
> write a GPL module with their added system calls, and have that module
> include hooks to their binary module.  So, until we can fix that, I
> guess Linus won't allow for this module to be included in the main line.
>=20
> -- Steve
[SNIP]
> Index: arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> --- arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (revision 15)
> +++ arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (working copy)
> @@ -906,5 +906,10 @@
>   .long sys_vperfctr_unlink
>   .long sys_vperfctr_iresume
>   .long sys_vperfctr_read
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DSYSCALL
> + .long sys_dsyscall  /* 295 */
> +#else
> + .long sys_ni_syscall  /* 295 */
> +#endif

Wouldn't it be better to do a
cond_syscall(sys_dsyscall)
in kernel/sys_ni.c

=2D-=20
Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]



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