Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:50:43 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module |
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Hi!
> David Howells <David.Howells@nexor.co.uk> wrote: > > > >Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > >> > (3) Even if it was... just filling in the syscall slot from a module means > >> > that it is possible for the module to be unloaded whilst the syscall is in > >> > use. > > Note that all this is not the problem. > > The problem is that dynamic system calls are not going to happen. > > Why? > > License issues. I will not allow system calls to be added from modules. > Because I do not think that adding a system call is a valid thing for a > module to do. It's that easy. > > It's the old thing about "hooks". You must not sidestep the GPL by just > putting a hook in place. And dynamic system calls are the ultimate > hook.
Well, you can't stop _GPL-ed_ modules from adding dynamic system calls. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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