Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 15:49:10 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] ppc64: SPU file system |
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On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:22:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Dinsdag 17 Mai 2005 00:27, Greg KH wrote: > > Huh? ?We can handle syscalls in modules these days pretty simply. ?Look > > at how nfs and others do it. > > Well afaics, nfs works around this issue by having fs/nfsctl.o always > as a builtin and abstract the calls through a file system using > read/write. That would be Ben's idea again, i.e. not actually > using a system call. > > The only widely used module that I'm aware of ever implementing a system > call was the TUX web accelerator that that used a hack in entry.S > and its own dynamic registration.
Sorry, but I was thinking of the cond_syscall() stuff, to allow syscalls in modules or code that just happens to not be built into the kernel.
thanks,
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