From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263842AbUECSjb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:39:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263851AbUECSiV (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:38:21 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:64130 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263850AbUECSiP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 14:38:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:37:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: davidm@hpl.hp.com cc: Andrew Morton , bunk@fs.tum.de, eyal@eyal.emu.id.au, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken In-Reply-To: <16534.36778.587011.400850@napali.hpl.hp.com> Message-ID: References: <408F9BD8.8000203@eyal.emu.id.au> <20040501201342.GL2541@fs.tum.de> <20040501161035.67205a1f.akpm@osdl.org> <20040501175134.243b389c.akpm@osdl.org> <16534.35355.671554.321611@napali.hpl.hp.com> <16534.36778.587011.400850@napali.hpl.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 3 May 2004, David Mosberger wrote: > > Yes. On ia64, I held off on getting rid of kernel-internal syscalls > entirely because I was too lazy to do kernel_thread(). Yeah, there's a few special calls that need more than just a simple C-level call. kernel_thread() and execve() ends up being the main ones, I think. On alpha, you could never do the "system call from kernel space" thing in the first place, so alpha has always just open-coded the things rather than play games with the "legacy way". Not hugely difficult, at most it requires one or two assembler wrappers for those special calls that want a "struct pt_regs" thing passed into them. Linus