Re: [PATCH] further __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ removal

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 07:57:47PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2004 19:00, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 18:35, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > ===== drivers/media/dvb/frontends/alps_tdlb7.c 1.8 vs edited =====
> > > --- 1.8/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/alps_tdlb7.c	Thu Feb 26 03:09:55 2004
> > > +++ edited/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/alps_tdlb7.c	Thu Feb 26 23:57:05
> 
> >
> > this is the wrong way to "fix" this; might as well leave this driver as
> > is until it is fixed to use request_firmware()
> 
> My idea was to finally eliminate __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ without breaking
> the in-tree drivers, so I changed all I could.
> This patch leaves the syscalls in device drivers and fixes all
> necessary uses in init/*.c.
> Maybe we can find a better solution for calling execve in do_linuxrc(),
> run_init_process() and ____call_usermodehelper(). Then a #warning can
> be added __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ is defined.

Michael Hunold already has some patches to change DVB to
use the kernel I2C stuff, so we can then convert frontends
to use request_firmware() properly. However, this work
is not finished yet, and needs more testing.

Johannes