From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161017AbVLJSLR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:11:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161018AbVLJSLQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:11:16 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:32454 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161017AbVLJSLQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Dec 2005 13:11:16 -0500 Subject: Re: IRQ vector assignment for system call exception From: Arjan van de Ven To: Gaurav Dhiman Cc: yen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1e33f5710512100520k57c016b0tadfbb496cac3ea6e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20051208080435.M54890@eos.cs.nthu.edu.tw> <1e33f5710512100520k57c016b0tadfbb496cac3ea6e@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:11:11 +0100 Message-Id: <1134238271.2828.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.8 (+) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.0.4 on pentafluge.infradead.org summary: Content analysis details: (1.8 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL RBL: SORBS: sent directly from dynamic IP address [213.93.14.173 listed in dnsbl.sorbs.net] 1.7 RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL RBL: NJABL: dialup sender did non-local SMTP [213.93.14.173 listed in combined.njabl.org] X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 18:50 +0530, Gaurav Dhiman wrote: > yes, definetely a historical reason. System libraries need to know > this vector to invoke system call. nowadays it's also mostly unused; sysenter and friends are used instead and they don't use this entry point.