Re: The disappearing sys_call_table export.

Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-08T14:13:14Z

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 03:18:29PM +0200, Terje Malmedal wrote:
> And if I wish to help somebody running a kernel I didn't compile?

recompile it. binary patch it. I don't care. Linux is free software
so you're allowed to change whatever you want. Just don't annoy us
about fixing problems in mainline.

> Do you have anything constructive to say about situation i referred
> to:
>
> A database is starting to run slower and slower, turns out that this
> is because fsync() is inefficient on large files. Rebooting the server
> or restarting the database is undesirable even at night.

fix the database. hey, if you think it's so important fork the kernel.
if there's enough people that agree with you wour fork will be mainline
some day. It's really _that_ easy.

> The only problem I can see is that different modules overloading the
> same function needs to be unloaded in the correct order. Is this the
> only reason for removing it, or am I missing something?

it's racy - and it doesn't work on half of the arches added over the
last years.