From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chas williams Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:31:45 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] patching the syscall table via a module Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org afs patches the syscall table when it loads as a module. currently afs pags and pioctl are implemented this way. while this might change in the future, its not going to happen any time soon. i have run into a problem with this recently, and noticed that sys_call_table is declared as .rodata. my older ia64 machines dont seem to enforce the read only, but the new sn machine does! is there a particular reason the sys_call_table needs to be .rodata and not just .data? could it be changed? it seems the ia64 port is the only port that does this.