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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-2.5.7
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 10:02:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11499.1017532970@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000." <15526.20182.949443.871413@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000 (EST), 
Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>I cannot see the weak aliases being a real fix either.
>If you compile with NFSD as a module, and with CONFIG_KMOD, then the
>nfssvc_ctl systemcall is suppose to auto-load nfsd.o.  How can this be
>achieved with weak aliases?

System calls cannot be in modules.  Linus forbids it (that way lies
"extend and embrace") and at least two architectures (ia64, ppc64)
break when a syscall is in a module.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-31  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-30 23:48 linux-2.5.7 Neil Brown
2002-03-31  0:02 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-03-31  2:04   ` linux-2.5.7 Alexander Viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-30 23:23 linux-2.5.7 Timothy Murphy
2002-03-30 23:41 ` linux-2.5.7 Alexander Viro
2002-03-31  2:22   ` linux-2.5.7 David S. Miller
2002-03-31  7:54     ` linux-2.5.7 Alexander Viro
2002-03-31  8:30       ` linux-2.5.7 Andrew Morton
2002-03-31  8:42         ` linux-2.5.7 Alexander Viro
2002-04-04  9:42       ` linux-2.5.7 Richard Henderson
2002-04-04 14:45         ` linux-2.5.7 Alvaro Figueroa
2002-03-31  3:25 ` linux-2.5.7 Pierre Rousselet
2002-03-31  6:21   ` linux-2.5.7 David S. Miller

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