From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262970AbVBCUwN (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:52:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263350AbVBCUwM (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:52:12 -0500 Received: from smtp003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.11.34]:35222 "HELO smtp003.mail.ukl.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262970AbVBCUwD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2005 15:52:03 -0500 From: Blaisorblade To: Andrew Morton 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: David Howells , LKML References: <200501142206.24730.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> <30254.1105783030@redhat.com> <20050115020349.44a3622a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050115020349.44a3622a.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502032151.18408.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 15 January 2005 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > David Howells 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