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From: Arjan van de Ven
Subject: Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for itself
Date: Monday, July 7, 2008 - 12:01 am

On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 01:09:30 -0400
"Jinkai Gao" <mickeygjk@gmail.com> wrote:


Since we promise a stable ABI to userspace, this is a bit of a problem.

But... look today, we already have various system calls implemented by
modules. (example: sys_nfsservctl)
but to make it fully dynamic? Not a good idea... nobody would be able
to program to it.




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Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jul 7, 2:35 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 5:12 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 5:36 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Jinkai Gao, (Mon Jul 7, 7:00 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Bart Van Assche, (Mon Jul 7, 7:16 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Josh Boyer, (Mon Jul 7, 7:16 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Jul 7, 7:29 am)
Re: Suggestion: LKM should be able to add system call for ..., Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jul 7, 7:42 am)
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