Messages in this thread | | | From | Blaisorblade <> | Subject | ATI modules using the _syscall() macro for unexported syscalls (was: Re: Fw: Re: [patch 02/11] uml: fix compilation for missing headers) | Date | Thu, 3 Feb 2005 21:51:18 +0100 |
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On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: [....] > I'm not sure that we even use errno any more. The only syscall trap which > the kernel internally takes now is execve(). Everything else is (or should > be) just calling the sys_foo() function directly.
The ATI kernel modules reportedly use the syscall() facility to call modify_ldt, which I guess is not exported... I've received the report of this because that causes a name conflict with the SKAS patch I maintain.
Also, I have the doubt is that they're circumventing EXPORT_SYMBOL restrictions and thus violating the license. IANAL, however. -- Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade Linux registered user n. 292729 http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade
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