From: "Bart Van Assche" <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
To: "Jinkai Gao" <mickeygjk@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>,
"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 16:16:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e108260807070716k3a03bbbs120a249fc66ea90b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb82a8210807070536o3e6a1ed8ld05505b0d80112f3@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Jinkai Gao <mickeygjk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why the number of system calls is growing? because the kernel is
> growing. why we don't use the alternatives to implement the new need
> for system calls? Because it doesn't make any sense. We can't ignore
> the kernel modules' need for system calls just because they are
> loadable.
Arjan and Jan have already explained in detail why adding system calls
dynamically is troublesome.
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-07 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-07 5:09 Jinkai Gao
2008-07-07 7:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07 12:12 ` Jinkai Gao
2008-07-07 14:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-07 8:40 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-07-07 12:36 ` Jinkai Gao
2008-07-07 14:16 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2008-07-07 14:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-07 9:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-07 14:00 ` Jinkai Gao
2008-07-07 14:16 ` Josh Boyer
2008-07-07 16:33 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
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