Re: calling oem sal functions

Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-19T17:29:04Z

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 05:23:46PM +0000, Tony Luck wrote:
> Dean,
>
> I've been thinking about this, and it does seem unresonable that there
> is no way for an OEM written module to make a call to an OEM SAL function.
>
> Would something like the (compiles, but untested) attached patch work
> for you? The return value of 0/-1 just indicates whether the SAL call
> was attempted. Callers should look at the status field of the isrvp
> structure to determine the actual success of the call.
>
> Would you also need "_nolock" and "_reentrant" versions?

Please make the exports _GPL so we have the callers under rcontrol.