From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262078AbULQRVQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:21:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262079AbULQRVQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:21:16 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:40362 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262078AbULQRVH (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:21:07 -0500 Message-ID: <41C31485.8040102@osdl.org> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:16:53 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: selva kumar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New System call & Kernel compilation References: <20041217102631.43898.qmail@web52106.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041217102631.43898.qmail@web52106.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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