Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:13:29 +1100 |
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 14:54:29 +0100, David Howells <David.Howells@nexor.co.uk> wrote: >Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: >> This seems to me the best idea. However I would argue against dynamically >> allocating syscalls. Reserving numbers makes for better code and allows you >> to do autoloading. > >Now there's an idea... have the kernel autoload modules based on a particular >syscall number being handled in that module. Madness *grin*.
No more madness than kmod loading a module called char-major-10-135 for /dev/rtc. Or code that uses modules.pcimap to work out which module to load for a PCI device. Just teach kmod to load syscall-agent-86 if you want to get smart.
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