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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: selva kumar <mailnselva@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New System call & Kernel compilation
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:16:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C31485.8040102@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217102631.43898.qmail@web52106.mail.yahoo.com>

selva kumar wrote:
> selva:
>   After adding a new system call, should we have to
> recompile the whole kernel? can anyone help me
> regarding this?

Yes, it's expected that you rebuild the kernel
(at least all affected files), then reboot that
kernel to use the new syscall.

OTOH, there has been some recent email on lkml about
dynamic syscalls and a way to allow them (mostly for
experimental use AIUI, but if that's the case, just
rebuilding and rebooting would probably do for most
people).

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 10:26 New System call & Kernel compilation selva kumar
2004-12-17 17:16 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-12-18 14:19 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-12-18 14:29   ` Jan Engelhardt

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